September 2022

Gathering manoomin: Leech Lake Tribal College offers students a traditional wild rice harvest Students and staff members of Leech Lake Tribal College recently loaded their canoes and set out on Upper Rice Lake near Bagley to take part in the honored tradition of harvesting wild rice. By Maggi Fellerman September 21, 2022 at 7:20 AM BAGLEY — Students and staff members of Leech Lake Tribal College recently loaded their canoes and set out on Upper Rice Lake near Bagley to take part in the honored tradition of harvesting wild rice. Arriving at the lake at about 9:30 a.m., two students [...]

Elaine Fleming, a Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe elder and professor at the Leech Lake Tribal College, prays and gently tosses a handful of tobacco into the lake water to ask for safe passage on the water and give thanks before harvesting wild rice on Leech Lake in Minnesota, Monday, Sept. 12, 2022. (AP Photo/Jessie Wardarski) Minnesota Ojibwe harvest sacred, climate-imperiled wild rice By GIOVANNA DELL'ORTO AP Photography by Jessie Wardarski September 20, 2022 ON LEECH LAKE, Minnesota (AP) — Seated low in her canoe sliding through a rice bed on this vast lake, Kendra Haugen used one wooden stick [...]