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The Red Nation Podcast

What is wild? Manoonim (wild rice) harvesting w/ Courtney & Kathy

The Red Nation Podcast

The Red Nation

History, Society & Culture

4.81.1K Ratings

🗓️ 28 October 2019

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Manoomin, or wild rice, is central to Ojibwa history, culture, and prophecy. In this episode, Ojibwa wild rice harvesters and caretakers Courtney Calia and Kathy Smith share their knowledge of Manoomin's central role in Ojibwa society and its connection to the health of water, the planet, and people.

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0:00.0

What is wild?

0:02.0

Wild is an exciting blend of herbs and spices and the goodness of Uncle Ben's rice.

0:17.0

Wild is Uncle Ben's long grain and wild rice, and wild is wonderful.

0:29.0

Now you end up with, mostly, the brown rice that's all out of its chaff and ready to go, but there's

0:36.0

always some of those that maybe didn't get enough heat or maybe didn't get danced

0:41.0

on just right, but you can just pop them right out. I mean feel that compared to the ones you were trying to open earlier.

0:47.3

Try to pop one of them, just roll it between your fingers. It'll just roll it.

0:51.6

Yeah, see? It comes out a lot easier, see? So then the final step is to pick through all the remaining things like what the ladies are doing inside yeah and we will normally

1:05.1

separate it out to long grains short broken grains and then the chap

1:09.0

separate it all out because then the nice long ones they make that pretty spiral when you

1:14.1

cook them. You know? Courtney I just I'm recording for a podcast that we're using so I

1:19.4

was going to say this earlier but our conversation really started like it just got really

1:23.6

amazing so I just started recording it I was wondering if you could introduce

1:28.0

yourself oh sure and anishnabig or however you want to do it? Sure, why not?

1:33.4

Well, thanks for telling me I was being recorded.

1:34.8

No, it was like, because I was like, okay, I could just like,

1:38.8

because then when you tell, and sometimes you be like, oh, this is like,

1:41.1

you throw people up.

1:42.1

Then they're like, then they're like, then they get weird.

1:44.1

Yeah.

1:45.1

And they're like, they're like white voice comes in and they're like,

1:48.0

this is the way real Native Americans do it.

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