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Among US tribes, a movement revives native foods and lands

Two by two, the wild rice harvesters emerge from the grass-filled lake and drag their canoes to shore. The harvesters, Lake Superior Chippewa, are reaping their ancestral food in the traditional way — one poling the boat through the waist-high tangle, and the other bending the stems and gently brushing ripe seed loose with a pair of batons. It’s hard, dirty work on a steamy Minnesota late-summer day. They’re caked with chaff and sweat.

But the canoes are loaded with the sacred grain they call manoomin. It was a good harvest, they say.

http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Making-a-difference/Change-Agent/2015/1006/Among-US-tribes-a-movement-revives-native-foods-and-lands

 

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