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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Diners who prefer their Minnesota wild rice harvested by hand may find it in short supply in the coming months. Heavy rain early this summer nearly wiped out the natural crop in eastern Minnesota, and ...

In September of 2025, dozens of people with indigenous roots from across the Great Lakes gathered on the banks of Michigan’s Au Sable River to harvest manoomin– or wild rice– […] ...

Mark Pero, left, of Solon Springs, uses knocker harvesting sticks to tap manoomin (wild rice) into his canoe as Valerie Ross Zhaawendaagozikwe, of Solon Springs, moves their canoe through the manoomin ...

LAKE CHARLES, La. (KPLC) - We have all heard about the high prices and low production during crawfish season. Well, now it’s time for rice harvest. When driving in Southwest Louisiana, it’s pretty ...

With its panicles -- or grain heads -- heavy with rice, the upright stems of the rice plant are particularly vulnerable to damage from winds and water the nearer they are to harvest. When crops are ...

BALL CLUB, Minn. -- It all starts with building a wood fire early in the morning to create the bed of glowing coals needed to parch rice through the day. John Hayes and John Beltman are tending the ...

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 ...

A new study analyzing stone tools from southern China provides the earliest evidence of rice harvesting, dating to as early as 10,000 years ago. The researchers identified two methods of harvesting ...