Groundbreaking bill to protect manoomin, or wild rice, incorporates Indigenous lifeways & teachings into Western legal framework, ray levy uyeda reports. After seeing limited success this legislative session, advocates in Minnesota vow to work toward full protections for manoomin until they’re won.
Bill to protect manoomin incorporates Indigenous lifeways into Western legal framework
After seeing limited success this legislative session, advocates vow to work toward full protections for manoomin, or wild rice
prismreports.org
April 14, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Groundbreaking bill to protect manoomin, or wild rice, incorporates Indigenous lifeways & teachings into Western legal framework, ray levy uyeda reports. After seeing limited success this legislative session, advocates in Minnesota vow to work toward full protections for manoomin until they’re won.
“Every time we go and harvest #Manoomin, we are acting in resistance, we are acting in resilience, and we’re thriving as people.”
The good berry: #Anishinaabe resilience through the harvest of Manoomin canadiangeographic.ca/articles/the...
The good berry: #Anishinaabe resilience through the harvest of Manoomin canadiangeographic.ca/articles/the...
The good berry: Anishinaabe resilience through the harvest of Manoomin
Throughout the Great Lakes, Anishinaabeg communities work together to sow the seeds of success for wild rice
canadiangeographic.ca
September 25, 2025 at 7:32 PM
“Every time we go and harvest #Manoomin, we are acting in resistance, we are acting in resilience, and we’re thriving as people.”
The good berry: #Anishinaabe resilience through the harvest of Manoomin canadiangeographic.ca/articles/the...
The good berry: #Anishinaabe resilience through the harvest of Manoomin canadiangeographic.ca/articles/the...
Pressure Builds to Protect Manoomin (Wild Rice)
Activists have been showing up to meetings since the start of the 2025 legislative session in an attempt to create legal protections for wild rice.
unicornriot.ninja/2025/pressur...
Activists have been showing up to meetings since the start of the 2025 legislative session in an attempt to create legal protections for wild rice.
unicornriot.ninja/2025/pressur...
Pressure Builds to Protect Manoomin (Wild Rice) - UNICORN RIOT
Activists have been showing up to meetings since the start of the 2025 MN legislative session in attempts to create legal protections for wild rice.
unicornriot.ninja
July 2, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Pressure Builds to Protect Manoomin (Wild Rice)
Activists have been showing up to meetings since the start of the 2025 legislative session in an attempt to create legal protections for wild rice.
unicornriot.ninja/2025/pressur...
Activists have been showing up to meetings since the start of the 2025 legislative session in an attempt to create legal protections for wild rice.
unicornriot.ninja/2025/pressur...
Roger is a legend. Respect.
The manoomin fact sheet I made a few years back for @anishinaabekdem.bsky.social, why not. Roger is quoted at the very end. Can't quick find the larger version where I more prominently featured his words.
Super cool that recognition was fought for and won. ♥️🌾💧
The manoomin fact sheet I made a few years back for @anishinaabekdem.bsky.social, why not. Roger is quoted at the very end. Can't quick find the larger version where I more prominently featured his words.
Super cool that recognition was fought for and won. ♥️🌾💧
November 12, 2025 at 4:01 AM
Roger is a legend. Respect.
The manoomin fact sheet I made a few years back for @anishinaabekdem.bsky.social, why not. Roger is quoted at the very end. Can't quick find the larger version where I more prominently featured his words.
Super cool that recognition was fought for and won. ♥️🌾💧
The manoomin fact sheet I made a few years back for @anishinaabekdem.bsky.social, why not. Roger is quoted at the very end. Can't quick find the larger version where I more prominently featured his words.
Super cool that recognition was fought for and won. ♥️🌾💧
NEW: Activists in MN Seek to Protect Wild Rice
Wild rice, often known by its Objiwe name, manoomin, has been a means of sustenance for Dakota/Lakota and Ojibwe peoples since time immemorial.
unicornriot.ninja/2025/pressur...
Wild rice, often known by its Objiwe name, manoomin, has been a means of sustenance for Dakota/Lakota and Ojibwe peoples since time immemorial.
unicornriot.ninja/2025/pressur...
Pressure Builds to Protect Manoomin (Wild Rice) - UNICORN RIOT
Activists have been showing up to meetings since the start of the 2025 MN legislative session in attempts to create legal protections for wild rice.
unicornriot.ninja
June 13, 2025 at 9:46 PM
NEW: Activists in MN Seek to Protect Wild Rice
Wild rice, often known by its Objiwe name, manoomin, has been a means of sustenance for Dakota/Lakota and Ojibwe peoples since time immemorial.
unicornriot.ninja/2025/pressur...
Wild rice, often known by its Objiwe name, manoomin, has been a means of sustenance for Dakota/Lakota and Ojibwe peoples since time immemorial.
unicornriot.ninja/2025/pressur...
July 30, 2025 at 12:47 AM
SciArt September, Day 28: Harvest. Manoomin is the Anishinaabe and Ojibwe name for wild rice. This sacred grain is traditionally harvested using a canoe and knocking stick to bend the rice stalks over the canoe and collect the grains. 🐡🎨🌱#sciartseptember #manoomin #harvest
September 29, 2025 at 1:36 PM
The Wild Rice Act has the potential to address how Minnesota understands & approaches its relationship to manoomin, or wild rice, ray levy uyeda reports. The state could mark a new chapter incorporating Indigenous lifeways into the Western legal framework.
prismreports.org/2025/04/14/m...
prismreports.org/2025/04/14/m...
Bill to protect manoomin incorporates Indigenous lifeways into Western legal framework
After seeing limited success this legislative session, advocates vow to work toward full protections for manoomin, or wild rice
prismreports.org
April 21, 2025 at 2:01 PM
The Wild Rice Act has the potential to address how Minnesota understands & approaches its relationship to manoomin, or wild rice, ray levy uyeda reports. The state could mark a new chapter incorporating Indigenous lifeways into the Western legal framework.
prismreports.org/2025/04/14/m...
prismreports.org/2025/04/14/m...
From Lake Tawas to a wild rice camp: how manoomin is harvested by Michigan Indigenous communities.
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From Lake Tawas to a wild rice camp: how manoomin is harvested by Michigan Indigenous communities
Michigan's Indigenous communities harvest wild rice, or manoomin, every year as part of their cultural heritage and modern-day work to restore the plant.
www.wkar.org
November 13, 2025 at 2:31 AM
From Lake Tawas to a wild rice camp: how manoomin is harvested by Michigan Indigenous communities.
www.wkar.org/wkar-news/20...
www.wkar.org/wkar-news/20...
Manoomin (aka wild rice) is an aquatic grass, so wind pollinated. But the flowers have a great purple color. This rice bed has flowering plants alongside mature seeds.
#GreatLakes
#GreatLakes
September 9, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Manoomin (aka wild rice) is an aquatic grass, so wind pollinated. But the flowers have a great purple color. This rice bed has flowering plants alongside mature seeds.
#GreatLakes
#GreatLakes
Here's Fred Ackley Jr., of the Sokaogon Chippewa of Mole Lake, explaining the personal and spiritual significance of manoomin as he harvests and processes it
Manoomin: Food That Grows on the Water | The Ways
YouTube video by PBS Wisconsin Education
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March 18, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Here's Fred Ackley Jr., of the Sokaogon Chippewa of Mole Lake, explaining the personal and spiritual significance of manoomin as he harvests and processes it
Wild rice - Manoomin - is sacred to the Ojibwe people. And should be to us all. It's the only grain native to North America. Harvests have declined significantly, largely due to #ClimateChange. @wisdems.org
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‘As vulnerable as a plant can be’: New study finds climate change largely to blame for less wild rice
Data collected in part by the Great Lakes Indian Fish & Wildlife Commission shows a decrease in manoomin — a wild rice plant important to Ojibwe lifeways.
www.wpr.org
September 9, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Wild rice - Manoomin - is sacred to the Ojibwe people. And should be to us all. It's the only grain native to North America. Harvests have declined significantly, largely due to #ClimateChange. @wisdems.org
www.wpr.org/news/vulnera...
www.wpr.org/news/vulnera...
Thanking creator I bought a package of manoomin from the Red Lake Nation last month so I can at least make some soup to get us through this storm.
September 27, 2026 at 3:26 PM
Thanking creator I bought a package of manoomin from the Red Lake Nation last month so I can at least make some soup to get us through this storm.
The Wild Rice Act has the potential to address something deeper: how Minnesota understands its relationship to manoomin, ray levy uyeda reports. It marks the start of Minnesota incorporating some Indigenous lifeways & wisdom into the Western legal framework.
prismreports.org/2025/04/14/m...
prismreports.org/2025/04/14/m...
Bill to protect manoomin incorporates Indigenous lifeways into Western legal framework
After seeing limited success this legislative session, advocates vow to work toward full protections for manoomin, or wild rice
prismreports.org
April 22, 2025 at 7:01 PM
The Wild Rice Act has the potential to address something deeper: how Minnesota understands its relationship to manoomin, ray levy uyeda reports. It marks the start of Minnesota incorporating some Indigenous lifeways & wisdom into the Western legal framework.
prismreports.org/2025/04/14/m...
prismreports.org/2025/04/14/m...
ANYWAY i got to design a super beautiful book about manoomin and they didn’t deduct my fines from it, bless
November 4, 2025 at 6:47 PM
ANYWAY i got to design a super beautiful book about manoomin and they didn’t deduct my fines from it, bless
NEW: Pressure Builds to Protect Manoomin (Wild Rice)
With climate change, habitat destruction, and these infrastructure projects all looming large, protecting wild rice is more important than ever.
New video by contributor Wabigonikwe: unicornriot.ninja/2025/pressur...
With climate change, habitat destruction, and these infrastructure projects all looming large, protecting wild rice is more important than ever.
New video by contributor Wabigonikwe: unicornriot.ninja/2025/pressur...
Pressure Builds to Protect Manoomin (Wild Rice) - UNICORN RIOT
Activists have been showing up to meetings since the start of the 2025 MN legislative session in attempts to create legal protections for wild rice.
unicornriot.ninja
June 13, 2025 at 8:26 PM
NEW: Pressure Builds to Protect Manoomin (Wild Rice)
With climate change, habitat destruction, and these infrastructure projects all looming large, protecting wild rice is more important than ever.
New video by contributor Wabigonikwe: unicornriot.ninja/2025/pressur...
With climate change, habitat destruction, and these infrastructure projects all looming large, protecting wild rice is more important than ever.
New video by contributor Wabigonikwe: unicornriot.ninja/2025/pressur...
Restored manoomin is offering new hope in the St. Louis River Estuary.
Indigenous-led research — powered by Tribal Nations, UW Extension and the Lake Superior Reserve — is showing that rebounding wild rice (manoomin) may contain lower levels of heavy metals than what’s been reported in white rice.
Indigenous-led research — powered by Tribal Nations, UW Extension and the Lake Superior Reserve — is showing that rebounding wild rice (manoomin) may contain lower levels of heavy metals than what’s been reported in white rice.
Indigenous-led research examines the health of restored manoomin in the St. Louis River Estuary
For Ojibwe people, wild rice—manoomin—is far more than a food source. It is a sacred relative, central to culture, identity, and community well‑being. Yet over the past century, manoomin beds in the S...
foodsystems.extension.wisc.edu
February 23, 2026 at 6:55 PM
Restored manoomin is offering new hope in the St. Louis River Estuary.
Indigenous-led research — powered by Tribal Nations, UW Extension and the Lake Superior Reserve — is showing that rebounding wild rice (manoomin) may contain lower levels of heavy metals than what’s been reported in white rice.
Indigenous-led research — powered by Tribal Nations, UW Extension and the Lake Superior Reserve — is showing that rebounding wild rice (manoomin) may contain lower levels of heavy metals than what’s been reported in white rice.
The Ojibwe tribe is fighting to preserve manoomin, a wild rice in northern Wisconsin that’s under threat from a pipeline, climate change, pollution and invasive plant species.
Wild rice binds this tribe together. It’s under threat from every direction.
Inside the Ojibwe’s fight to preserve a plant and the extraordinary traditions around it in northern Wisconsin.
www.washingtonpost.com
October 6, 2025 at 6:00 PM
The Ojibwe tribe is fighting to preserve manoomin, a wild rice in northern Wisconsin that’s under threat from a pipeline, climate change, pollution and invasive plant species.
Fun fact: My manoomin hair on Marie Antoinette won me my first crop art blue ribbon. It took like 40 hours to lay.
November 27, 2024 at 10:55 PM
Fun fact: My manoomin hair on Marie Antoinette won me my first crop art blue ribbon. It took like 40 hours to lay.
This year's crop of wild rice/manoomin in Wisconsin has been better than average, due to both stable weather conditions during the growing season and the efforts of tribes to restore and protect wild rice-growing waters www.wpr.org/environment/...
Wisconsin's wild rice harvest is expected to be up this year
Wild rice, or manoomin in the Ojibwe language, is culturally significant to northern Wisconsin tribes, and Wisconsin regulators are anticipating an increased wild rice harvest this year.
www.wpr.org
September 10, 2026 at 6:19 PM
This year's crop of wild rice/manoomin in Wisconsin has been better than average, due to both stable weather conditions during the growing season and the efforts of tribes to restore and protect wild rice-growing waters www.wpr.org/environment/...
It was wonderful to see yesterday that manoomin (wild rice) is spreading along the edges of the Rum River in Kathio National Historic Landmark. About 10 years ago, the Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe & Minnesota Dept of Natural Resources restored wild rice in Ogechie Lake just upstream.
July 3, 2025 at 12:15 PM
It was wonderful to see yesterday that manoomin (wild rice) is spreading along the edges of the Rum River in Kathio National Historic Landmark. About 10 years ago, the Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe & Minnesota Dept of Natural Resources restored wild rice in Ogechie Lake just upstream.
there's also been a ton of reevaluation of this in the past few decades afaik, because it turns out stuff like milpas & manoomin cultivation was pretty important
June 8, 2026 at 4:12 PM
there's also been a ton of reevaluation of this in the past few decades afaik, because it turns out stuff like milpas & manoomin cultivation was pretty important
For #NativeAmerican Heritage Month, let's honor Elder Roger LaBine, who pushed for over 2 decades to get #manoomin #mnomin designated #Michigan's state native grain #Chippewa #LacVieuxDesert #Ojibwe
November 12, 2025 at 12:32 AM
For #NativeAmerican Heritage Month, let's honor Elder Roger LaBine, who pushed for over 2 decades to get #manoomin #mnomin designated #Michigan's state native grain #Chippewa #LacVieuxDesert #Ojibwe
It’s the how many loaves of bread can I bake between now and Thanksgiving challenge. Manoomin bread batch 1
November 24, 2024 at 1:37 PM
It’s the how many loaves of bread can I bake between now and Thanksgiving challenge. Manoomin bread batch 1