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WAABIGONIKWE
RAVEN
Waabigonikwe talks
about the meaning of
rice fand the fight
against line 3.
WRITTEN BY WAABIGONIKWE
RAVEN
PHOTO BY PROVIDED BY
WAABIGONIKWE RAVEN
Manoomin. Wild rice. The
food that grows on water. It
goes by more than one name,
and from each body of water,
no rice is the same. Each
individual, longer, shorter,
greener, browner, more
purple than another.
Ricing brings people
together. At 22, I went ricing
for the first time. Taught by
elders, surrounded by friends
that have become like family,
and my brother. We camped
on the shores of Big Sandy
Lake, not only a site of
tragedy, but betrayal in 1850
by the US government.(14) .
Growing up, I was closest to
my older brother. But after
being placed in separate
foster homes in my early