feeding families and hosting ceremonies with the delicacy that tribal legend says was prophesied to their ancestors . Their approach has been so successful that the band is now leading the first major state , federal , and non-profit collaboration to restore part of Lake Superior ' s former vast wild rice ecosystem .
The earthy grain prized by epicureans is fundamental to the indigenous people , also called Ojibwe or Anishinaabeg , who flank the Great Lakes from Michigan to Minnesota . " It ' s in every bit of our way of life ," says Thomas Howes , the Fond du Lac natural resources manager , sitting on the gunwhale of a canoe filled with the bright green spikelets he has just finished harvesting . " That ' s why you see Ojibwe people make this degree of effort ."
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