/tags/rice rice en-US Copyright Tue, 07 Aug 2018 08:57:00 GMT /news-partners/2018-08-07/climate-change-threatens-midwests-wild-rice-a-staple-for-native-americans When harvests are bad, Native Americans in the region may go without rice for the year. And there have been a lot of bad years lately, as climate change causes more frequent and severe rainstorms. Tue, 07 Aug 2018 08:57:00 GMT /news-partners/2018-08-07/climate-change-threatens-midwests-wild-rice-a-staple-for-native-americans Rebecca Hersher /news-partners/2017-05-10/a-lost-rice-variety-and-the-story-of-the-freed-merikins-who-kept-it-alive The rice traveled from Africa to the Southeast, where it was a link to home for enslaved Africans. Then it nearly vanished — and with it, a heritage tying African, Southern and West Indian foodways. Wed, 10 May 2017 19:04:00 GMT /news-partners/2017-05-10/a-lost-rice-variety-and-the-story-of-the-freed-merikins-who-kept-it-alive Jill Neimark