Last weekend (and the next two Saturdays, weather permitting), the Mille Lacs Indian Museum and Trading Post offered demonstrations on traditional Native American techniques of processing wild rice.

Chippewa, also called Ojibwe and Anishinabe, have united in their opposition to genetic modification of wild rice. This year a bill before the Minnesota Legislature would have banned genetically ...

Native Americans consider wild rice a food source both sacred and crucial to their cultural identity. Minnesota imposed a water quality standard to protect wild rice from elevated levels of ...

Each fall, the Ojibwa tribes of northern Minnesota harvest wild rice by hand. ... 1 cup wild rice from Native Harvest. 3 cups chicken broth. 1 cup diced celery. 1/4 cup minced onion .

Wild Rice in Minnesota. Season 1 Episode 101 | 26m 46s Video has Closed Captions | CC. ... a James Beard winning talent, who goes by the moniker, The Sioux Chef, as a Native American Sioux.

An Native American tribe is working to restore wild rice to five eastern Minnesota lakes. The work is being done by The Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa.

Native Harvest is an initiative of the White Earth Land Recovery Project, an organization (founded by Native American activist Winona LaDuke) that’s working to reclaim Anishinaabeg lands in ...

Meier also noted that a 2008 DNR inventory found that wild rice grew currently or historically in 1,200 Minnesota lakes and 54 counties. New maps would likely cover a majority of northern waters.

To prepare wild rice: When cooked, wild rice generally triples in volume. Varieties differ, so follow cooking instructions on package. Place 1 cup wild rice in a fine-mesh strainer and rinse under ...

The stewardship plan is expected to lead to more collaboration among tribal and state agencies, plus more coordinated research, protection, and restoration of wild rice across Michigan, LaBine said.

The Star Tribune published its first wild rice soup recipe on Dec. 17, 1975. In the intervening years, more than 60 iterations have followed, which probably makes wild rice soup, in all its ...