CASS LAKE, Minn. — The Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe was recently awarded $3.6 million from the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Economic Development Administration to build a wild rice processing facility ...

When I was in grade school, we learned that the Ojibwe (or Chippewa) tribe harvested wild rice in canoes and it was part of ...

ODANAH, Wis. — I’m speeding along the Bad River in a flat-bottomed boat, wind whipping around us. Next to me sits Robert Blanchard, the 70-year-old tribal chairman and chief executive of the Bad River ...

Wild rice is collected by knocking the grains off the plants into a canoe in Sept. 2026 in northern Wisconsin.

BALL CLUB, Minn. -- It all starts with building a wood fire early in the morning to create the bed of glowing coals needed to parch rice through the day. John Hayes and John Beltman are tending the ...

Frank Bibeau remembers canoeing on the waters of northern Minnesota with his father on a late summer day in 1996. The sky and placid lake stretched to the horizon all around their red canoe, ...

Andrew Zimmern joins this episode all about wild rice and its history. The most sacred food of the Anishinaabe people has become a prized ingredient in cuisine. Learn about the history of wild rice ...

Wild rice is a whole grain that has been growing in popularity in recent years. It’s very nutritious and believed to offer numerous health benefits. Though research is limited, a few studies have ...

Wild rice harvest was down in 2024, but spirits will be high in 2025 when a new processing facility is expected to be open in Cass Lake, Minnesota. Isaiah RedDay fills 1-pound bags of Leech Lake Wild ...