Park Rapids – Protecting Manoomin (Wild Rice), Protecting Water and Everyone

Join us for this public seminar co-presented by Zhaashiigid Nooding (Ojibwe knowledge-holder from the White Earth Nation Reservation, Red Lake Nation citizen) and Crystal Ng (settler hydrologist, professor at University of Minnesota).

Manoomin (in Ojibwe), or natural Wild Rice, is an aquatic plant that is central to the cultural identity of Indigenous peoples throughout the Upper Great Lakes region. Tribal harvesters also hold generations of understanding about the natural and human factors that influence its well-being. Zhaashiigid Nooding and Crystal Ng will share their collaboration story of bringing together Indigenous knowledge and western science to protect Manoomin, an endeavor that protects all the water and human and non-human beings around it.

About We Are Water MN?

We are Water MN is a project of the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency and the Minnesota Humanities Center in partnership with the Minnesota Historical Society; the Board of Water and Soil Resources; the Minnesota Departments of Agriculture, Health, and Natural Resources; and University of Minnesota Extension.

We are Water MN is paid for by the Clean Water, Land, & Legacy Fund that was created with the vote of the people of Minnesota on November 4, 2008.

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