returning the rice to the wild: revitalizing wild rice in the great lakes region through indigenous knowledge governance and establishing a geographical indication

abstract

this season—the anishinaabeg wild rice moon manoominike giizis—is the season of a harvest, a ceremony, and a way of life ... far away, a combine is harvesting paddy-grown wild rice somewhere in california, some biopirates are hunting for genes, and consumers are eating a very different food. the anishinaabeg would not trade. in the end, this rice tastes like a lake, and that taste cannot be replicated. 1 —winona laduke