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Sierra Clark

  • Mari and Monni Raphael harvest manoomin on an inland lake in northeast lower Michigan. Photo by Mike Krebs - Traverse City Record-Eagle.
    The Food That Grows On Water
    Sierra Clark
    According to an Anishinaabe prophecy, manoomin – wild rice – is what brought the Ojibwe, Odawa and Potawatomi peoples to the Great Lakes.But starting in the late 1800s, manoomin’s decline was fast and widespread. And just like the plant itself, a lot of knowledge around harvesting practices has been lost. Some Anishinaabek are changing that.
  • Mari and Monni Raphael harvest manoomin on an inland lake in northeast lower Michigan. Photo by Mike Krebs - Traverse City Record-Eagle.
    The Food That Grows On Water
    Patrick Shea
    According to an Anishinaabe prophecy, manoomin – wild rice – is what brought the Ojibwe, Odawa and Potawatomi peoples to the Great Lakes.But starting in the late 1800s, manoomin’s decline was fast and widespread. And just like the plant itself, a lot of knowledge around harvesting practices has been lost. Some Anishinaabek are changing that.
  • The Anishinaabek practice of sugaring was largely erased from the Upper Great Lakes with the arrival of white settlers. Indigenous producers like Nikki Nelson Bailey are working to reclaim this tradition.
    Reclaiming maple sugaring on an Anishinaabek farm
    Sierra Clark
    The Anishinaabek practice of sugaring was largely erased from the Upper Great Lakes with the arrival of white settlers. Indigenous producers like Nikki Nelson Bailey are working to reclaim this tradition.