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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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