by Miacel Spotted Elk | Dec 23, 2025 | Earthjustice, Enbridge, great lakes, indigenous people, Line 5, News, Ojibwe, US Army Corps of Engineers, Wisconsin
Around August of each year, when temperatures swell in the Great Lakes region, wild rice — or manoomin in the Ojibwe language — begins to flower. Rice stalks can grow as high as 10 feet in the shallow waters, and to harvest, sticks and poles are used to knock seeds loose into boats or canoes. The harvest is critical each year to the Ojibwe. But those ricing waters are under threat as the…
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by Frances Madeson | Oct 19, 2025 | Anishinaabe, Enbridge, food sovereignty, great lakes, Indigenous Peoples, Michigan, News, oil pipeline, Ojibwe
This Indigenous Peoples Day, the approximately 2,700 Ojibwe tribal members of the Bay Mills Indian Community in northern Michigan are marking the holiday amid fear that their region could face another environmental catastrophe like the one that occurred in 2010, when Enbridge’s Line 6B oil pipeline burst and spilled over a million gallons of tar sands crude oil, contaminating the Kalamazoo River…
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