Treaty Rights Battle Links Hunting and Oil Pipelines in Minnesota

Douglas Thompson
7/22/16
Members of several northern Minnesota Ojibwe Bands are preparing a legal challenge to reaffirm hunting, fishing and gathering rights guaranteed by their 1855 Treaty with the United...

Wisconsin Ojibwe Stress Environmental Unity at State of the Tribes Address

ICTMN Staff
2/25/16
Working together on environmental issues was a one of several strong themes in the recent State of the Tribes address given to the Wisconsin Legislature by Lac Courte Oreilles Band...

For Tribes in U.S., a Movement to Revive Native Foods and Lands

Cheryl Katz, Yale Environment 360
10/23/15
On ancestral lands, the Fond du Lac band in Minnesota is planting wild rice and restoring wetlands damaged by dams, industry, and logging...

NCAI Demands Environmental Review of Enbridge Pipeline Through Wild Rice Lands

ICTMN Staff
7/14/15
The National Congress of American Indians (NCAI) has passed a resolution calling for a full environmental impact statement on a proposed oil pipeline that would cut through indigen...

Video: Ojibwe Author Jim Northrup Waxes Poetic—Literally—on Manoomin

ICTMN Staff
11/9/14
In this chat, the inimitable Jim Northrup opens up in his endearing style, waxing poetic—literally—on ricing, talking about his ancestors as he soaks in the sunshine...

Gift of the Harvest—the Art and History of Ricing

Richard D. Ackley Jr.
10/16/14
It is early September as I steady our small canoe ( jiiman ), keeping my left foot in and my right foot out, while my cousin climbs aboard. It is time to harvest the wild rice...

Video: Manoomin and the Importance of Ricing

ICTMN Staff
9/15/14
In its 11th installment, Wisconsin Media Lab introduces Fred Ackley Jr., of the Sokaogon Chippewa Community of Mole Lake, as he harvests and processes manoomin , or wild rice...

10 Foods Natives Had Before Europeans

ICTMN Staff
6/30/14
Much confusion surrounds Indigenous foods...

No Longer Dead in the Water: Last Year’s Ailing Wild Rice Crop Bounces Back

Konnie LeMay
9/23/13
The June 2012 massive rainstorms that wiped out last year’s wild rice harvest on the Fond du Lac Reservation actually have aided the tribal resources department in managing two ric...

Saginaw Chippewa Tribe Publishes Fun-Filled Kids Book 'Wild Rice Road'

ICTMN Staff
9/13/13
Manoomini-miikaans—The Wild Rice Road tells the story of two children on their way to an annual wild rice camp on the Saginaw Bay and was created to teach children respect for natu...

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