Winona LaDuke
News From Indian Country
03-31-1995
White Earth Land Recovery project, more than just land: Protecting. reservation lands, economy and community development spearheads projects at White Earth Ojibway reserve
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 pounds 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), ...