Building on a longstanding partnership with Indigenous nations, the Michigan Department of Natural Resources is intensifying its commitment to sowing manoomin, a native aquatic rice and staple of the ...

ODANAH, Wis. — I’m speeding along the Bad River in a flat-bottomed boat, wind whipping around us. Next to me sits Robert Blanchard, the 70-year-old tribal chairman and chief executive of the Bad River ...

MOLE LAKE — In late August, Robert Van Zile Jr., looked out over Rice Lake with dismay. Brown spot disease had decimated this year's wild rice crop. The lake is home to the last remaining wild rice ...

Note: This article is a sidebar to this issue’s feature story. For a glimpse of how far hatchery reform can go, state and federal agencies need only look at what tribes like the Nez Perce, Umatilla ...

ATHENS TOWNSHIP, Mich. (WOOD) — Long before Michigan was granted statehood, before the first pilgrims made landfall and even before Christopher Columbus made his fateful journey across the Atlantic, ...

Charges accuse them of damaging an estimated 30 acres of wild rice beds on Height of Land Lake, just south of the White Earth ...

At least 196 uncontacted Indigenous groups remain, half of which could be wiped out in under 10 years, according to a new ...

The Pit River Tribe has regained ownership of 270 acres of ancestral land along the Fall River.