Frank Zomer, fisheries biologist for Bay Mills Indian Community, refills a bucket with wild rice for Tiffany Escherich, ...

Members of Minnesota's Chippewa tribes will begin harvesting wild rice this week, off their reservations and without a state license, in an effort to gain affirmation of hunting, fishing and gathering ...

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 ...

Michigan's Indigenous communities harvest wild rice, or manoomin, every year as part of their cultural heritage and ...

Boozhoo ("hello" in Ojibwe) and miigwech ("thank you") for reading the First Nations Wisconsin newsletter. Wild ricing season is upon us and harvesters will descend upon lakes and wetlands across the ...

ONEIDA – Tony Kuchma, wetlands program coordinator for the Oneida Nation, was exploring the tribe’s newly restored wetlands area one day about 15 years ago when he saw something that made him react as ...

DULUTH — The dwindling number of Minnesotans who take to lakes and rivers to harvest wild rice late each summer will have to wait a little longer to start this year's season, according to Department ...

The centuries-old practice of harvesting wild rice at the end of summer is open only to Fond du Lac band members this year on the reservation's five ricing lakes. The season opened Friday, and the ...

Cultivation of wild rice faces decline from warmer winters, extreme weather and more. The cultivation of wild rice — manoomin in Ojibwe — has diminished in scale over centuries across northern ...

ST .PAUL -- Minnesota Department of Natural Resources wildlife managers say it’s shaping up to be a good season for wild rice harvesting as the dry spring provided favorable water levels and rice beds ...

ON LEECH LAKE, Minn. — Seated low in her canoe sliding through a rice bed on this vast lake, Kendra Haugen used one wooden stick to bend the stalks and another to knock the rice off, so gently the ...