An environmental committee hearing at the Minnesota State Capitol veered into religion and protecting the unborn Thursday as lawmakers discussed a bill that would grant inherent rights to the state ...

She helps share Native stories in her work as an ... That guidance brought the Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe here to Minnesota. A view of Manoomin or wild rice after it has been harvested and processed.

One VFW in the Twin Cities is named after a man whose death captured national headlines and played a role in the civil rights ...

Layne Kennedy Come September in northern Minnesota, on lakes on the Ojibwa ... It operates a mill on the reservation and markets Native Harvest wild rice to specialty stores around the country ...

Leah Lemm is a senior editor at MPR News, leading the Native News initiative which ... Finding Manoomin : A Search for the Spirit of Wild Rice, which follows her journey to connect with ...

Over the past 40 years, the amount of Manoomin has decreased by about 50%, wild rice technician at Trout Lake Station Sagen ... tribal youth in Manoomin education and bring awareness to non-Indigenous ...