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Wild rice, also called manoomin, mnomen, psíŋ, Canada rice, Indian rice, or water oats, is any of four species of grasses that form the genus Zizania, and the grain that can be harvested from them. The grain was historically and is still gathered and eaten in North America and, to a lesser extent, China , [ 2 ] where the plant's stem is used ...
Due to its habitat and proximity to Madeline Island, Bad River is of major importance to the Ojibwe Nation. People from all over Ojibwe Country come for the annual August Celebration of the manoomin, or wild rice harvest. On the northern border of the Reservation, the elevation tends to be between 600 and 700 feet (180 and 210 m) above sea level.
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Chisholm (pop. 4,976) is the Mesabi Range's geographic center. Coleraine (pop. 1,970) has been called the "start place of the Iron Range." Crosby (pop. 2,386) is an old mining boomtown on the Iron Range's southwestern edge. Deerwood (pop. 529) Mining engineer Cuyler Adams discovered the Cuyuna Range near Deerwood in 1895.
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According to the oral history of the Anishinaabeg, they originally lived on the shores of the "Great Salt Water" (presumably the Atlantic Ocean near the Gulf of St. Lawrence). They were instructed by seven prophets to follow a sacred miigis shell ( whiteshell ) toward the west, until they reached a place where food grew upon the water. [ 2 ]
The San Jacinto Mountains (Mohave: Avii Hanupach) [1] are a mountain range in Riverside County, located east of Los Angeles in southern California in the United States. [2] The mountains are named for one of the first Black Friars, Saint Hyacinth (Spanish: San Jacinto), who is a popular patron in Latin America.
Shooting range near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Shooting ranges exist in most parts of the US, with the exception of cities in the states of Hawaii, California, Massachusetts, New York, New Jersey and Illinois with strict gun control laws.