Dennis Carrick is part of the Michigan Wild Rice Initiative team, working to create laws to protect Michigan's manoomin. On Wednesday, the Michigan Legislature designated manoomin Michigan's ...

My first memory of wild rice is, like many, simply eating it. In the turkey dressing at the holidays or in some summer ...

Michigan’s wild rice, or manoomin stewardship plan was discussed in depth on Jan. 24 during an environmental conference hosted by Ann Arbor-based nonprofit The Stewardship Network.

Tribal leaders inevitably chose land that had the best manoomin. Wild rice also is important to other tribes in Wisconsin. The name for Menominee, for example, ...

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.” ...

The Oneida are eager to start harvesting wild rice, or manoomin, which they deem beneficial in supporting their food sovereignty initiatives. Skip to main content. 24/7 Help. For ...

Related: Wild rice brought the Anishinaabe people to the Great Lakes. Now they are trying to restore it. But now manoomin is on the cusp of a new, special designation: Michigan’s symbolic state ...

Gov. Gretchen Whitmer signed legislation this week to make manoomin – wild rice – the state’s official native grain. The keystone aquatic plant with special importance to Indigenous peoples ...

- Well, manoomin means today "wild rice." The direct translation from Ojibwe, manoomin means "the good berry." - [Yia] Manoomin, or wild rice, is a plant that grows from seed every year.

Wild rice, or manoomin in Ojibwe, is vulnerable to shifting water levels during its development, and high winds can flatten emergent plants. “A mild winter ...

The Oneida are eager to start harvesting wild rice, or manoomin, which they deem beneficial in supporting their food sovereignty initiatives.