LANSING, Mich. — A bill that would make wild rice Michigan's official "state native grain," HB 4852, is expected to be signed by Governor Gretchen Whitmer after passing both the House and Senate. The ...

LANSING, Mich. (WJRT) - A form of wild rice once prevalent in Michigan before the state was settled centuries ago was designated this week as the state's official native grain. Gov. Gretchen Whitmer ...

A five-year effort by the Anishinaabek Caucus to have manoomin (wild rice) designated as the state of Michigan’s native grain has paid off. On Wednesday, November 1, 2023, the Michigan Senate passed ...

LANSING, MI – Manoomin is now officially Michigan’s designated state native grain. Gov. Gretchen Whitmer signed legislation this week to make manoomin – wild rice – the state’s official native grain.

LANSING, MI – Indigenous communities across Michigan are celebrating a pair of victories in Lansing this year. A bill to require school districts and public-school academies to allow Indigenous ...

Gunnar Nelson, of Brimley, works on using handmade cedar manoomin "wild rice" knockers to pull in plants and tap them, causing the ripened wild rice grains to fall into a canoe as Bay Mills Community ...

Wild rice or manoomin is an ecologically important and culturally revered wetland species native to the Great Lakes region of the United States and Canada, which once covered thousands of acres and ...

As an eagle circled above a section of the Au Sable River in Oscoda, Bay Mills Indian Community tribal member Dennis Carrick saw the symbolic greeting of the bird, sacred to Native Americans, as a ...