Dirty Water and Dead Rice: The Cost of the Clean Energy Transition in Rural Minnesota

Photo caption: Native Americans Harvey Goodsky Jr. and his wife Morningstar harvest wild rice on Rice Lake in north central Minnesota. […] Photo credit: Richard Tsong-Taatarii / Star Tribune via Getty Images. Article by Karina Atkins. Inside Climate News – November 21, 2023.

More than 250 years ago, the Ojibwe people, one of the largest Indigenous populations in North America, received a prophecy to migrate westward until they reached the land where food grows on water. When the Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe encountered wild rice in north-central Minnesota, they knew they found their new home. […]

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