Indigenous organizations collaborate to feed their most vulnerable
By Kathryn Styer Martinez/MPR News It’s the first big snowstorm of winter. Bob Rice and Angel Swann are out running errands and picking up food in Rice’s minivan. Even though the weather reports advise against driving, Rice, an enrolled member of the White Earth Nation and a born-and-raised Minnesotan, says there are no snow days […]
Pow Wow Grounds serves wild rice and history along with coffee
BY LEE EGERSTROM Thirsty coffee drinkers stopping by the Pow Wow Grounds in South Minneapolis know there is much more available there than a cup of the hot stuff, especially if they have a hunger for wild rice foods or could use a friendly fist bump. “I’ve been ricing for 43 years,” said Robert (Bob) Rice, […]