LANSING, Mich. — A bill that would make wild rice Michigan's official "state native grain," HB 4852, is expected to be signed by Governor Gretchen Whitmer after passing both the House and Senate. The ...

LANSING, Mich. (WJRT) - A form of wild rice once prevalent in Michigan before the state was settled centuries ago was designated this week as the state's official native grain. Gov. Gretchen Whitmer ...

A five-year effort by the Anishinaabek Caucus to have manoomin (wild rice) designated as the state of Michigan’s native grain has paid off. On Wednesday, November 1, 2023, the Michigan Senate passed ...

LANSING, MI – Manoomin is now officially Michigan’s designated state native grain. Gov. Gretchen Whitmer signed legislation this week to make manoomin – wild rice – the state’s official native grain.

LANSING, MI – Indigenous communities across Michigan are celebrating a pair of victories in Lansing this year. A bill to require school districts and public-school academies to allow Indigenous ...

Gunnar Nelson, of Brimley, works on using handmade cedar manoomin "wild rice" knockers to pull in plants and tap them, causing the ripened wild rice grains to fall into a canoe as Bay Mills Community ...

LANSING, Mich. — An effort is simmering in Lansing to designate Michigan wild rice as the state’s official native grain. Manoomin, also known as Michigan wild rice, would join a long list of critters ...

Last summer, just before the wild-rice harvest, I drove east from the Fargo, North Dakota, airport into the rolling green landscape of northern Minnesota—Lake Wobegon country, and beautiful enough to ...

People reseed rice back into the water following a harvest during a 2019 wild rice camp in Alberta, MI. 200 years ago, wild rice grew in almost every waterway in Michigan. Indigenous communities in ...

More than 400 years after the first English settlers stepped ashore at Jamestown, the defining way in which a new native food reshaped their lives has been largely forgotten. Though raised on Northern ...