It operates a mill on the reservation and markets Native Harvest wild rice to specialty stores around the country (and through U.S. products supported by the Slow Food Foundation for Biodiversity ...

That film, “Finding Manoomin: A Search for the Spirit of Wild Rice” aired on TPT on Nov. 27 and 28, and will be available for on-demand viewing here, as part of Native American Heritage Month.

Over the past 40 years, the amount of Manoomin has decreased by about 50%, wild rice technician at Trout Lake Station Sagen Quale said. Manoomin is Ojibwe for wild rice and translates to “good berry.” ...

It is also in close proximity to an urban Native American community in Chicago and near several tribes in the Midwest ... prior to the arrival of settlers and continued to this day. Adorning the lake ...

New Indigenous cuisine also empowers Native American chefs to select foods and ... diners will find dishes like bison meatballs and wild rice fritters courtesy of chef Wahpepah.

Michigan’s 12 federally recognized tribes are working with state agencies to restore a grain that was once a staple to Native American diets: manoomin. The wild rice grows on the shorelines of ...