Building on a longstanding partnership with Indigenous nations, the Michigan Department of Natural Resources is intensifying its commitment to sowing manoomin, a native aquatic rice and staple of the ...

EAST LANSING, MI – There’s a new plan to help restore and protect Michigan’s remaining native wild rice beds. Michigan’s wild rice, or manoomin stewardship plan was discussed in depth on Jan. 24 ...

LANSING, MI – Indigenous communities across Michigan are celebrating a pair of victories in Lansing this year. A bill to require school districts and public-school academies to allow Indigenous ...

Roger Labine uses ricing sticks, or knockers, to harvest wild rice on Lake Tawas. Every year as summer ends, Indigenous Michiganders head out onto lakes and rivers to collect wild rice, a staple food ...

ODANAH, Wisc. - I’m speeding along the Bad River in a flat-bottomed boat, wind whipping around us. Next to me sits Robert Blanchard, the 70-year-old tribal chairman and chief executive of the Bad ...

Wild rice grows in shallow waterways in the Great Lakes region and parts of Canada. It’s a plant that holds important ecological and cultural significance, but it’s been on the decline since the early ...

In the only available wild rice spot on Lake Superior, Natives from different nations gather for the wild rice harvest season. The Great Lakes Indian Fish and Wildlife Commission brought their experts ...

EAST TAWAS, MI – Tawas Lake’s surface resembles a prairie with tall grasses blowing in the breeze, while beneath the water lies a forest-like ecosystem. The 1,600-acre inland lake not far from Lake ...

Although it's been used in the kitchen for generations, you might be surprised to hear that wild rice isn't actually rice at ...