SOUTH CHIPPEWA LAKE, Minn. - Earl and Kathy Hoagland glide through the reedy shallows with a fluid choreography of motion melded by decades of shared work. Earl, planting his long pole in the muddy ...

Members of Minnesota's Chippewa tribes will begin harvesting wild rice this week, off their reservations and without a state license, in an effort to gain affirmation of hunting, fishing and gathering ...

DULUTH — The dwindling number of Minnesotans who take to lakes and rivers to harvest wild rice late each summer will have to wait a little longer to start this year's season, according to Department ...

HEAVY HEADS AT HARVEST With its panicles -- or grain heads -- heavy with rice, the upright stems of the rice plant are particularly vulnerable to damage from winds and water the nearer they are to ...