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Manoomin Music Video honors MI KBIC tribe and teens
 
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Added: 24-03-2008
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Music Tribute The Manoomin Project Teens American Indians restore Wild Rice to northern Michigan In September 2007 Northern Michigan teenagers will plant wild rice for the fourth summer in a row with help from American Indian guides The Manoomin Project teaches at risk teens many from juvenile court to respect themselves nature and American Indian heritage and culture Manoomin means wild rice in Ojibwa and the project receives funds from the Keweenaw Bay Indian Community It was founded by the Superior Watershed Partnership and the Cedar Tree Institute non profit environment organizations in Marquette Michigan Wild Rice disappeared from the Upper Peninsula of Michigan a century ago and is now making a comeback thanks to teens and the American Indian Guides In 2006 the Manoomin Project was declared one of the 15 hardest working non profit projects in American by World Magazine the Acton Institute and the Good Samaritan program Photos by Greg Peterson Steve Durocher and Samantha Otto Music Courtesy Detroit Free Press An Oswego Illinois band with Upper Peninsula roots Music written by Andy Wicklund Peter Nemanich Chris Hammond and Tim Obert Detroit Free Press myspace page is detroitfreepress after usual url Songs used in video Acceptance Drowning I Can See the Child You Once Were Written by Andy Wicklund Peter Nemanich Chris Hammond
Channels: Native Music  Everything Else  Interviews 
Tags: Manoomin  wild  rice  KBIC  Native  American  Indian  Michigan  teens  teenager  Keweenaw  Bay  Indian  Community  culture  environment 

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