51 – Harvest on Big Rice Lake

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🗓️ 26 July 2016

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Each fall, the Ojibwe tribes of northern Minnesota harvest wild rice by hand. It’s a long process that begins with families in canoes venturing into the tall grasses, where rice is poled and gently brushed with knockers into the bed of the canoe. We journey to White Earth Reservation, out onto Big Rice Lake in a canoe, to see how one tribe is supporting itself and changing the diet of its people through community kitchen projects. And we talk with the founder of White Earth Land Recovery Project, Winona LaDuke, about the land, her fight to save wild rice, GMOs, her family, philosophy, and her candidacy for vice president of the United States on the Green Party ticket with Ralph Nader.

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1:14.4	Some hidden kitchens are seasonal.
1:21.4	They show up when they're ready. On the White Earth Ojibwe Reservation in northern Minnesota,
1:27.0	the rising season is short. It lasts maybe a month if the rain and cold weather hold off. We'd been calling for weeks, trying to
1:35.9	zero in on when would be a good time to record the harvest. No one would commit. The
1:41.8	wild rice harvest begins when the rice is ripe. Today on
1:46.2	fugitive waves harvest on Big Rice Lake and a conversation with Ojibwe leader
1:52.1	Winona Leduc,
1:53.7	founder of White Earth Land Recovery Project
1:56.5	and Vice Presidential nominee in 1996 and 2000
2:01.2	on the Green Party Ticket with Ralph Nader.
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