From LeahConnecting with my Ojibwe heritage by learning to harvest wild rice MPR News senior editor Leah Lemm walks with her son Marvin from his school bus stop on Jan. 2. So, she set out with a ...

I’m Leah Lemm, citizen of the Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe. I’m the senior editor ... A Search for the Spirit of Wild Rice.” The film follows my journey as I connect with the harvest and ...

Leanna Goose grew up ricing manoomin (wild rice) as a member of the Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe.  “Wild rice is culturally ...

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.

Long before it became a mainstay in Midwestern cooking, wild rice, called manoomin, was a sacred food for the Ojibwe people, who were guided by prophecy to settle in the land “where food grows on ...