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• Return to traditional food helps ease hunger on White Earth Reservation -- Julie Siple, Minnesota Public Radio (4 October 2011)

Watered-down wild rice protection?
A legislative shift on environmental priorities could bring a "train wreck" -- and a veto from Gov. Dayton.
Last update: April 3, 2011 - 10:19 AM
<http://www.startribune.com/politics/state/119125914.html>
By JOSEPHINE MARCOTTY, Star Tribune

• Berde, Stuart. "Wild Ricing: The Transformation of an Aboriginal
  Subsistence Pattern" in J. Anthony Paredes, Anishinabe : 6 studies of modern Chippewa. Tallahassee: University Presses of Florida, 1979.
  
  
• California Wild Rice Advisory Board
  
  
• Coleman, Bernard. (July 1953) The Ojibwa and the Wild Rice Problem. Anthropological Quarterly, Vol. 26, No. 3, New Series Vol. 1, pp 79-88.
  
  
• Eastern Wild Rice Watershed [Minnesota] -- US Environmental Protection Agency
  
  
• Hauser, Susan Carol. Wild Rice Cooking. Guilford, CT: Lyons, 2000.
  
  
• Hayes, P. M. & R. E. Stucker. "The Domestication of American Wildrice (Zizania palustris, Poaceae)." Economic Botany, Vol. 43, No. 2 (June 1989), pp. 203-214.
  
  
• Horne, Francis & Ari Kahn. "Phylogeny of North American Wild Rice, a Theory." The Southwestern Naturalist, Vol. 42, No. 4 (December 1997) , pp. 423-434.
  
  
• International Wild Rice Association
  • Wild Rice Recipes
    
    
• Jenks, Albert Ernest. The wild rice gatherers of the upper lakes: a study in American primitive Economics. (Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institute, Extract from the Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology) 1901.
  
  
• Kaplan, Anne R., Marjorie A. Hoover, and Willard B. Moore. The Minnesota Ethnic Food Book. Saint Paul: Minnesota Historical Society, 1986.
  
  
• Kosban, Harold. The Taming of Wild Rice. Grand Rapids, Mn: Treasure Bay, 2005.
  
  
• Minnesota Cultivated Wild Rice Council
  
  
• Nabhan, Gary Paul (Ed.). Forward by Deborah Madison. "Wild Rice Nation," in Renewing America's Food Traditions: Saving and Savoring the Continent's Most Endangered Foods. White River Junction, VT: Chelsea Green, 2008.
  
  
  • Wild Rice Nation
    
    
• Nutrition Facts and Analysis for Wild rice, cooked -- NutritionData
  
  
• Regguinti, Gordon. 1992. The Sacred Harvest: Ojibway Wild Rice Gathering. Minneapolis, MN: Lerner Publications Company.
  
  
• Roufs, Timothy G. American Indian Oral History Collection, American Indian Oral History Collection, Vol. II, No. 21 -- Traditional Foods. (Paul Buffalo, et al. audiotape. Paul Buffalo discusses wild rice.) Dr. Joseph H. Cash, General Editor. New York: Clearwater Publishing Company, 1981. [UM DULUTH Library Multimedia PC 1203; see also microfiche collection]
  
  
• Roufs, Timothy G. "Mah-no-min-i-kay Gii-siss: Wild Ricing Moon," in When Everybody Called Me Gah-bay-bi-nayss: "Forever-Flying-Bird" An Ethnographic Biography of Paul Peter Buffalo.
  
  
• Save Wild Rice
  
  
• Scofield, Carl Schurz. Wild Rice: Its Uses and Propagation. Issue 50 of Bulletin (United States. Bureau of Plant Industry), 1903.
  
  
• Steeves, Taylor A. "WildRice: Indian Food and a Modern Delicacy." Economic Botany, Vol. 6, No. 2 (June 1952), pp. 107-142.
  
  
• Taube, Edward. "Wild Rice." The Scientific Monthly, Vol. 73, No. 6 (December 1951) , pp. 369-375.
  
  
• Texas Wild-rice (Zizania texana) -- Texas Parks & Wildlife
  
  
• Vennum, Thomas. Wild Rice and the Ojibway People. St. Paul, MN: Minnesota Historical Society Press, 1988.
  
  
• Wild Rice -- University of Wisconsin Extension
  
  
• Wild Rice
  
  
• Wild Rice Harvesting -- Wisconsin Historical Society
  
  
• Wild Rice Harvest in Wisconsin -- Wisconsin DNR
  
  
• WIld Rice Management -- Minnesota DNR
  
  
• Wild Rice Nation
  
  
• Zizania aquatica -- Center for New Crops & Plan Products, Purdue University

"We used a certain method when we go out into the field to look for medicines, wild rice, and other crops of the season which will be turned over to the Indian when they are mature. When we look at a crop we are always ready to say 'migwItch.'"

19th Century tribal women harvesting wild rice in the traditional manner.
The American Aboriginal Portfolio, by Mrs. Mary H. Eastman.
Illustrated by S. Eastman. Philadelphia: Lippincott, Grambo & Co. 1853.

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