Article: Protecting reservation lands: Work at the White Earth Land Recovery

Gary Blair
Ojibwe News, The
02-17-1995
Protecting reservation lands: Work at the White Earth Land Recovery. Project (WELRP)

Bob Shimek is the main organizer for the White Earth Land Recovery Project. A big guy, with a sheepish grin, he's mostly known as the mayor of Mahkonce, a small 3 house town on the intersection of State Highway 200 and Mahnomen County 4, with a wild rice processing mill, Bob owns the mill and processes probably 20,000 ponds of wild rice a year - for tribal members and the White Earth Tribe's Manitok operation.

Now is the season we eat rice, not manoominike (make it), however, and he's got a different work plan. Directing the environmental program at the WELRP, he's ...

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