Water is used to flood rice fields in order to harvest the grain, not to grow it. Wild rice actually grows in the water and only the flowering head of the grass sticks up over the water's surface.

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An curved arrow pointing right. Manoomin, meaning "the good berry," is a type of wild rice that has been harvested by the Ojibwe people in the Great Lakes region of North America for centuries.