Manomin: Caring for Ecosystems and Each Other Blackfoot and eating with abandon

and eating with abandon

The ledger drawings thus became a singularly important way for Native artists to preserve tribal history and to serve as a new kind of personal socio-political expression

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a new tribal council initiative raises uncomfortable questions about money and power

Manomin: Caring for Ecosystems and Each Other Blackfoot and eating with abandonReclaiming crops and culture on Turtle Island. Manomin, more commonly known by its English misnomer "wild rice," is the only cereal grain native to Turtle Island (North America). Long central to Indigenous societies and diets, this complex carbohydrate is seen by the Anishinaabeg as a gift from Creator, a "spirit berry" that has allowed the Nation to flourish for generations. Manomin: Caring for Ecosystems and Each Other offers a community engaged