How to use the Ojibwe People's Dictionary

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Showing Category: ricing

: Wheelbarrow

: Paddle for parching rice

: 1890s birch bark canoe

: 1918 birch bark canoe

: Birch bark mat

: Clay vessel dated 600 A.D. with evidence of wild rice

: Makak with tumpline

: Ojibwe woman winnowing wild rice

: Awl used in making a winnowing basket

: Basswood fiber

: Basswood fiber

: Nettle twine

: Parching wild rice at Chicog's, Nett Lake

: Threshing wild rice, White Earth Reservation.

: Ojibwe Indians beating wild rice to break the husk.

: Ojibwe gathering wild rice at Mille Lacs.

: Unloading wild rice from canoes, Nett Lake

: Sacking Green Wild Rice, Nett Lake

: Winnowing wild rice

: Two women winnowing rice

: Jim Drift Winnowing Rice

: Woman drying rice on sheets of birch bark.

: Drying Wild Rice on Birch Bark

: Threshing Wild Rice

: Threshing Rice by Car Power

: Helen Peterson and her husband wild ricing

: Wild ricing, Nett Lake Indian Reservation

: Wild ricing at Nett Lake

: Wild ricing, Nett Lake Indian Reservation

: Wild ricing, Nett Lake Indian Reservation

: Ojibwe women gathering wild rice.

: Indians harvesting wild rice

: Canoe used for wild rice harvest.

: Indians gathering wild rice

: Indians gathering wild rice

: Poles for pushing rice boats

: Harvesting wild rice

: Mrs. Albert Geshing collecting wild rice

: Finished Rice in Birch Bark Basket

: Parching wild rice, Cass Lake

: Ojibwe children in wild rice camp

: Parching Wild Rice at Chicog's

: Rice Parching, Nett Lake

: Parching rice near Federal Dam

: Grace Rogers parching wild rice

: A slow birch fire parches the rice and loosens the hull.

: Parching Rice at Field's Place, Nett Lake

: Drying Wild Rice, Nett Lake

: Woman in boat tying wild rice stalks with basswood fiber.

: Wild rice field

The Ojibwe People's Dictionary is developed and maintained by:
Nora Livesay, Editor
John D. Nichols, Founder and Linguistic Editor

with support and collaboration from the University of Minnesota's Department of American Indian Studies and University Libraries.

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