Ojibwe women parching wild rice at Nett Lake Indian Reservation, ca. 1947. Photograph by Monroe P. Killy.

Parched wild rice at Nett Lake. Photograph by Monroe P. Killy, September 6, 1947.

Drying wild rice at Nett Lake. Photograph by Monroe P. Killy, September 6, 1947.

Jim Drift winnowing wild rice at Nett Lake. Photograph by Monroe P. Killy, September 1, 1946.

Bebaa migizi go gaa (Mrs. Peter Fields) uses a traditional Ojibwe method to parch wild rice at Nett Lake. Photograph by Monroe P. Killy, September 1, 1946.

An Ojibwe boy treading wild rice, ca. 1938.

Ojibwe men in a canoe harvesting wild rice, ca. 1915.

St. Croix stamped ceramic vessel containing evidence of wild rice. Created by Native people who lived in the Upper Mississippi region before 640 CE.

Wild rice growing at Nett Lake. Photograph by Monroe P. Killy, September 1, 1946. Minnesota Historical Society, Collection I.69.121.

Tenth- and eleventh-grade students with a teacher at the Heart of the Earth Survival School in Minneapolis. From the 1982–1983 edition of Chimigezi Winage (the school's yearbook), page 11.