Uploaded November 2025 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago

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November is National Native American Heritage Month, and One Detroit teamed up with BridgeDetroit and Great Lakes Now for a report on wild rice, the state’s official native grain and a part of Indigenous people’s history in Michigan. Also known as “manoomin,” it used to grow in abundance across the Great Lakes region. Now there’s an effort to bring it back.

BridgeDetroit’s Jena Brooker and One Detroit’s Bill Kubota went on a manoomin harvest to learn more about wild rice and its importance to this area.

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