Roger Labine uses ricing sticks, or knockers, to harvest wild rice on Lake Tawas. Every year as summer ends, Indigenous Michiganders head out onto lakes and rivers to collect wild rice, a staple food ...

As the daughter of a Minnesotan and Michigander, I was raised on wild rice. For one, the long-grain marsh grass (not technically a rice) is a Midwestern staple, originally harvested by Native ...