Wild rice is a significant source of food for Indigenous people and an important part of the culture and connection between tribe members. Leanna Goose, an enrolled member of the Leech Lake Band of ...

CASS LAKE, Minn. — The Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe was recently awarded $3.6 million from the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Economic Development Administration to build a wild rice processing ...

— The Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe was recently awarded $3.6 million from the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Economic Development Administration to build a wild rice processing facility in Cass Lake.

They are a citizen of the Leech Lake Band of Ojibewe, and they research how Indigenous people have cultivated relationships ...

They are a citizen of the Leech Lake Band of Ojibewe, ... My only experience with geography on the day-to-day is Google Maps, ... I think about wild rice, ...

Anton is a member of the Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe, and he grew up nearby. ... D.C., and there was a map submitted. Either Henry Rice took the map he had in front of the natives, ...

On July 29, 2021, Li Boyd woke up to the smell of smoke. It was her birthday — she was turning 38 — and she had rented a boat to take her parents and aunts out on the lake near her home in ...

The tribes say the project violates their treaty rights and fear the pipeline will eventually leak, contaminating sacred waters and vital wild rice beds. Two other local tribes -- the Fond du Lac Band ...

The Leech Lake and White Earth bands of Chippewa have declared their reservations' wild-rice waters off limits to hunters during the state's experimental five-day teal-hunting season, which begins ...

The existing Line 3 corridor was first installed in the 1950s through the Leech Lake and Fond du Lac reservations and treaty lands of the Red Lake, White Earth and Milles Lacs tribes.

Members of the Leech Lake Band of the Ojibwe Tribe harvest wild rice on their reservation, which the new Line 3 pipeline would pass through. Credit: George Stringham/U.S. Army Corps of Engineers ...