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

- Link: https://www.widthness.com/dirty-water-and-dead-rice-the-cost-of-the-clean-energy-transition-in-rural-minnesota-2/
- Published: 2023-11-29T09:30:59-06:00
- Author: Curated by Theresa Wysocki

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. […] Click here to view original web page at insideclimatenews.org