I have a personal connection to this article, having spent some of early youth in Northern Minnesota with my parents who were friends several Ojibwe people. They even received a traditional bark canoe as a wedding present, and as late as 1975, the last year I was there, that canoe was in the rafters of a barn in Gilbert, MN.

I have vague early memories of harvesting wild rice from a canoe and then going somewhere to pick it up after roasting. I also remember harvesting berries (blackberries?) from the same canoe. I remember getting packages of wild rice in the mail after we moved to California. I didn't know that it was hybridized in the 70's and I'm surprised my parents never mentioned that.

To this day the harvest is a throwback to another time and apparently it's still done the way they have done it forever. I'll have to see if I can get some of the real thing - the article doesn't have much to good to say about "paddy rice".

Wild Rice

You might like to poke around the website - they have a lot of interesting recipes.

Would like to try that rice.
White rice is high on the glycemic scale. Brown rice is not much lower. Wonder where real wild rice is on the scale.
If I want something with a high glycemic index number I will take gelato.

I make wild rice occasionally. It’s expensive here.