Giiwewag. They are coming home.

Manoominikwewag, or harvesting wild rice, is a deep connection back to water and land. Wild rice represents the foundation of a sustainable economy. The Anishinaabe have harvested wild rice for a thousand years on the same lakes. That’s a land-based economy, not an economy based on profit margins of foreign corporations.

It’s worth fighting for.

There’s the smell of a lake full of wild rice, and there are the sounds. Water birds gathering, celebrating, and eating the wild rice. Swans, herons and small black and brown birds singing beautiful songs. The sound of wild rice falling into your canoe. It is the knowledge that this food can sustain families, feed people, provide income to pay for winter hardship, and all we have to do to obtain it is do our part

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