Wild rice in Leech Lake, Ojibwe
reservation in northern Minnesota.

Twenty foot forked pole used to push the canoe
through the wild rice at harvest time.

Bags of newly harvested wild rice.

Grains of wild rice with their protective outer hull.

Winnowing machine, which removes the
inedible outer hull from the rice.

Poplar wood logs used to fire the roasters
that parch the wild rice.

Wild rice being poplar wood fire parched.