Manoomin: The Story of Wild Rice in Michigan

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This is the primary book of its kind to bring forward the wealthy tradition of wild rice in Michigan and its importance to the Anishinaabek individuals who live there. Manoomin: The Story of Wild Rice in Michigan specializes in the history, culture, biology, economics, and spirituality surrounding this sacred plant. The tale travels through time from the times before European colonization and winds its way forward out and in of the logging and industrialization eras. It weaves between the worlds of the Anishinaabek and the colonizers, contrasting their different perspectives and divergent relationships with Manoomin. Barton discusses historic wild rice beds that when existed in Michigan, why many disappeared, and the efforts of tribal and nontribal other people with a common goal of restoring and protecting Manoomin around the landscape.

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