Sulfate from acid rain, sewage treatment plants, mines and bacteria is creating a harmful byproduct affecting wild rice in Minnesota. The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency and University of Minnesota ...

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.

Central to their platform and message is saving the state grain — wild rice, manoomin in the Ojibwe language, psin in Dakota.