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 ...

In the only available wild rice spot on Lake Superior, Natives from different nations gather for the wild rice harvest season. The Great Lakes Indian Fish and Wildlife Commission brought their experts ...

This week on AgweekTV, sugarbeet harvest is well underway in the northern Plains. We take a look at the conditions causing field fires across the area and what farmers can do to help stop them. The ...

We journey through the time-honored tradition of wild rice harvesting, known as manoomin. In this episode of Native Report, we journey through the time-honored tradition of wild rice harvesting, known ...

Wild rice is sacred to Indigenous peoples in Minnesota because it’s part of their creation story. But changing climate, invasive species, and pollution are threatening the plant, making it crucial to ...

You don’t need to look very hard to see how much the Northland loves wild rice. But for many people, the rice has a greater importance than just tasting good. UW-S students are learning how to gather ...

As the Aug. 15 wild rice season opening date approaches, the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources reminds harvesters that rice stands must be ripe before they can be legally harvested. Wild rice ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...