‘Manoomin is going away,’ speakers warn

‘Manoomin is going away,’ speakers warn

“Our relative, manoomin, the wild rice, is going away,” said Zhaashiigid Nooding, an Ojibwe knowledge-holder from White Earth Nation Reservation. “Something is going on out there.” That has wider implications, as he said, because “what we do to manoomin we do to ourselves. What we do to earth we do to ourselves.” Zhaashiigid Nooding and Gene-Hua Crystal Ng Robin Fish / Enterprise Nooding gave a "Waterwise Science Talk" on Thursday, July 30 at t…