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In the News . . .

• Survival of wild rice threatened by climate change, increased rainfall in northern Minnesota – MPRNews (18 August 2023).
  
  
• Why Wild Rice Harvesting in Minnesota is Endangered – PBS News (08 August 2022)
  
  
• Ancient cooking vessel found in Boundary Waters dates back more than 1,600 years -- MPRNews (28 February 2022)
  
  
• Wild rice growers worry about climate change hurting crops -- MPRNews (21 September 2020)
  
  
• Tribal leaders fault state plan, say wild rice in Minnesota is endangered -- StarTribune (20 January 2019)
  
  
• For Minnesota tribes, climate adaptation focuses on culturally significant species -- MPRNews (14 November 2018)
  
  
• Climate change threatens Midwest's wild rice, a staple for Native Americans -- MPRNews (07 August 2018)
  
  
• Politics of wild rice heats up at the Minnesota Capitol -- MPRNews (17 April 2018)
  
  
• Judge rejects PCA’s proposed sulfate limit for wild rice waters -- DuluthNewsTribune (11 January 2018)
  
  
• Celebration, resilience and food: What to eat at a powwow -- The Globe and Mail (12 November 2017)
  
  
• PCA says wild rice rule won't bankrupt Northland -- DuluthNewsTribune (04 November 2017)
  
  
• Hearings begin on wild rice rule -- MPRNews (23 October 2017)
  
  
• Fond du Lac Band restores wild rice to keep harvest tradition alive -- MPRNews (25 September 2017)
  
  
• Minnesota proposes new rule to protect wild rice -- DuluthNewsTribune (22 August 2017)
  
  
• Pollution control officials to hold meetings on wild rice sulfate rule -- MPRNews (17 January 2017)
  
  
• Once nearly wiped out by pollution, wild rice is coming back to northern MN -- MPRNews (21 September 2016)
  
  
• NORTHLAND OUTDOORS: Meet a central Minnesota family that made its living off wild rice for four generations -- DuluthNewsTribune (24 October 2016)
  
  
• Tribal protesters charged for gathering fish and wild rice -- MPRNews (08 January 2016)
  
  
• Ojibwe rice harvest is latest test of treaty limits in Minnesota -- MPRNews (27 August 2015)
  
  
• DNR grants one-day permit, avoids treaty rights court battle -- MPRNews (27 August 2015)
  
  
• Wild rice showdown looms in northern Minnesota -- StarTribune (23 August 2015)
  
  
• DNR warns Chippewa group against treaty rights test -- MPRNews (18 August 2015)
  
  
• DNR will enforce state rules on Chippewa ricers -- DuluthNewsTribune (18 August 2015)
  
  
• Wild rice harvest will test treaty rights -- DuluthNewsTribune (18 August 2015)
  
  
• McCollum blasts new wild rice plan -- MPRNews (25 March 2015)
  
  
• Wild rice study reveals more questions for state officials -- MPRNews (12 March 2014)
  
  
• Return to traditional food helps ease hunger on White Earth Reservation -- Julie Siple, Minnesota Public Radio (04 October 2011)

Watered-down wild rice protection?
A legislative shift on environmental priorities could bring a "train wreck" -- and a veto from Gov. Dayton.
Last update: April 3, 2011 - 10:19 AM
<http://www.startribune.com/politics/state/119125914.html>
By JOSEPHINE MARCOTTY, Star Tribune

• Berde, Stuart. "Wild Ricing: The Transformation of an Aboriginal
  Subsistence Pattern" in J. Anthony Paredes, Anishinabe : 6 studies of modern Chippewa. Tallahassee: University Presses of Florida, 1979.
  
  
• California Wild Rice Advisory Board
  
  
• Coleman, Bernard. (July 1953) The Ojibwa and the Wild Rice Problem. Anthropological Quarterly, Vol. 26, No. 3, New Series Vol. 1, pp 79-88.
  
  
• Eastern Wild Rice Watershed [Minnesota] -- US Environmental Protection Agency
  
  
• F.E.A.S.T. by the Bay, Farm to School Programs in the Ashland, Bayfield, and Washburn School Districts, of the Chequamegon Bay Region.
  
  
• Hauser, Susan Carol. Wild Rice Cooking. Guilford, CT: Lyons, 2000.
  
  
• Hayes, P. M. & R. E. Stucker. "The Domestication of American Wildrice (Zizania palustris, Poaceae)." Economic Botany, Vol. 43, No. 2 (June 1989), pp. 203-214.
  
  
• Horne, Francis & Ari Kahn. "Phylogeny of North American Wild Rice, a Theory." The Southwestern Naturalist, Vol. 42, No. 4 (December 1997) , pp. 423-434.
  
  
• International Wild Rice Association
  • Wild Rice Recipes
    
    
• Jenks, Albert Ernest. The wild rice gatherers of the upper lakes: a study in American primitive Economics. (Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institute, Extract from the Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology) 1901.
  
  
• Kaplan, Anne R., Marjorie A. Hoover, and Willard B. Moore. The Minnesota Ethnic Food Book. Saint Paul: Minnesota Historical Society, 1986.
  
  
• Kosban, Harold. The Taming of Wild Rice. Grand Rapids, Mn: Treasure Bay, 2005.
  
  
• Minnesota Cultivated Wild Rice Council
  
  
• Nabhan, Gary Paul (Ed.). Forward by Deborah Madison. "Wild Rice Nation," in Renewing America's Food Traditions: Saving and Savoring the Continent's Most Endangered Foods. White River Junction, VT: Chelsea Green, 2008.
  
  
  • Wild Rice Nation
    
    
• Nutrition Facts and Analysis for Wild rice, cooked -- NutritionData
  
  
• Ojibwe Food Traditions -- F.E.A.S.T. by the Bay, Farm to School Programs in the Ashland, Bayfield, and Washburn School Districts, of the Chequamegon Bay Region.
  
  
• Regguinti, Gordon. 1992. The Sacred Harvest: Ojibway Wild Rice Gathering. Minneapolis, MN: Lerner Publications.
  
  
• Roufs, Timothy G. American Indian Oral History Collection, American Indian Oral History Collection, Vol. II, No. 21 -- Traditional Foods. (Paul Buffalo, et al. audiotape. Paul Buffalo discusses wild rice.) Dr. Joseph H. Cash, General Editor. New York: Clearwater Publishing Company, 1981. [UM DULUTH Library Multimedia PC 1203; see also microfiche collection]
  
  
• Roufs, Timothy G. "Mah-no-min-i-kay Gii-siss: Wild Ricing Moon," in When Everybody Called Me Gah-bay-bi-nayss: "Forever-Flying-Bird" An Ethnographic Biography of Paul Peter Buffalo.
  
  
• Save Wild Rice
  
  
• Scofield, Carl Schurz. Wild Rice: Its Uses and Propagation. Issue 50 of Bulletin (United States. Bureau of Plant Industry), 1903.
  
  
• Steeves, Taylor A. "WildRice: Indian Food and a Modern Delicacy." Economic Botany, Vol. 6, No. 2 (June 1952), pp. 107-142.
  
  
• Taube, Edward. "Wild Rice." The Scientific Monthly, Vol. 73, No. 6 (December 1951) , pp. 369-375.
  
  
• Texas Wild-rice (Zizania texana) -- Texas Parks & Wildlife
  
  
• Vennum, Thomas. Wild Rice and the Ojibway People. St. Paul, MN: Minnesota Historical Society Press, 1988.
  
  
• Waterman Wittstock, Laura, and Dale Kakkak. Ininatig's Gift of Sugar: Traditional Native Sugarmaking. Minneapolis: Lerner Publications, 1993.
  
  
• Wild Rice -- University of Wisconsin Extension
  
  
• Wild Rice
  
  
• Wild Rice Harvesting -- Wisconsin Historical Society
  
  
• Wild Rice Harvest in Wisconsin -- Wisconsin DNR
  
  
• WIld Rice Management -- Minnesota DNR
  
  
• Wild Rice Nation
  
  
• Zizania aquatica -- Center for New Crops & Plan Products, Purdue University

"We used a certain method when we go out into the field to look for medicines, wild rice, and other crops of the season which will be turned over to the Indian when they are mature. When we look at a crop we are always ready to say 'migwItch.'"

19th Century tribal women harvesting wild rice in the traditional manner.
The American Aboriginal Portfolio, by Mrs. Mary H. Eastman.
Illustrated by S. Eastman. Philadelphia: Lippincott, Grambo & Co. 1853.

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