During June, at 6,000 feet on the Colorado Plateau, Indian rice grass was dominating the meadows, waving its large, dark seeds in the wind. Indian rice grass, Achnatherum (or Oryzopsis or Stipa) ...

MOUNT PLEASANT, MI – The process of changing manoomin from a medicine to a food happens at rice camp. Indigenous experts shared their traditional ecological knowledge during a recent wild rice camp at ...

SOUTH CHIPPEWA LAKE, Minn. - Earl and Kathy Hoagland glide through the reedy shallows with a fluid choreography of motion melded by decades of shared work. Earl, planting his long pole in the muddy ...

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 ...

Long before polished white rice became common, India had thousands of indigenous rice varieties growing across different ...

After years of Indigenous voices elevating the importance of a native keystone aquatic plant called manoomin, it’s finally earning its place in Michigan history. Manoomin is the word in Native ...