Ogechie Lake once had pristine water teeming with wild rice and waterfowl. That began to change in 1954 when Buck Moore Dam was installed at the south end of the lake, which can be seen off U.S. 169 a ...

Last week, I talked about the wild rice demonstrations at the Mille Lacs Indian Museum. Not far from the museum is Mille Lacs Kathio State Park. The park's two-fold name has two roots. "Mille Lacs" is ...

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VINELAND, Minn. -- The Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe is using a $40,000 federal grant to study how a dammed lake that once grew acres of wild rice can be restored to its prosperous state. The study, to be ...

ONAMIA, Minn.—The answers lie tantalizingly close to the surface—often buried less than 2 feet deep. Bits of charcoal. Fragments of clay pots. Evidence of elderberries. The mysteries run much deeper.

The depressions dot the banks of Ogechie Lake. Here, a century or two ago, the Ojibwe stored and processed the wild rice that once thrived on what is now Mille Lacs Kathio State Park near Onamia. For ...

Wild rice, or manoomin as it's called by the Ojibwe, grows in Ogechie Lake in Kathio Township, Minn.,on June 29.

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