Ojibwe people have made maple sugar for centuries and they continue to make it today. Watch how it's done in this video, shot in 2011. It takes about thirty-five gallons of sap to produce just one gallon of maple syrup. From there, the syrup can be boiled down further to get about seven pounds of sugar from one gallon of maple syrup.

Manoomin or psin (wild rice in Ojibwe and Dakota) is an important traditional food for many Indigenous peoples of the region and has been for millennia. Join Pat and Gage Kruse (Red Cliff Band of Lake Superior Chippewa) as they go ricing and share harvesting techniques and other information related to wild rice.

Ruth Myers, ca. 1987. From the newsletter of the Minnesota Library Association (October 1987), page 1.

Beadwork artist Holly Young shares her experiences as a Native American Artist-in-Residence (NAAIR) at the Minnesota Historical Society. NAAIR artists study collections items to better understand their respective art forms and then share their knowledge with the community.

To Dakota people, many places in Minnesota are sacred. Our origin stories root us in these places. They teach us how to live with this land and to be good relatives.

From homes along the Atlantic Ocean, our ancestors trekked slowly westward. A prophecy led them to “the land where food grows on water.”

On August 10, 2019, the Minnesota Historical Society hosted a Community Stick Lacrosse Game at the Arlington and Arkwright Soccer Field in St. Paul. The game was filmed in conjunction with the Our Home: Native Minnesota exhibit presented at the Minnesota History Center.

Two Ojibwe youths sell bags of wild rice to a buyer on the Leech Lake Reservation of Ojibwe. Photograph by Bill Burnson, ca. 1970.

Citizens of the Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe harvest rice on Mud Lake, located on the Leech River, seventeen miles downstream of Leech Lake Dam, on September 3, 2015. USACE photo by George Stringham. Public domain.

An Ojibwe woman ties together stalks of wild rice with basswood fiber to prepare them for harvest. Photograph by Frances Densmore, ca. 1930s. From Reserve Album 96, page 27.