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The Rights of Rice and Future of Nature

99% Invisible

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Introduction

This episode is the final one in our four part series that we're calling the future of dot, dot dot. Every summer, once the ie has thawed, the surface of the lake is slowly breached by tall, green stalks that grow up and out of the water. By early fall, big rice lake is dotted with canoes full of people there to harvest the grains from those plants. The ajibwa name for this specific type of rice is manomen, which slates to the good berry. Manoman used to grow wild all over the great lakes region, but its populations have declined significantly in the last hundred years due to development, climate change,. In order to

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