Gathering Wild Rice, 1849-1855, Seth Eastman, American, 1808–1875, 6 1/4 × 8 3/4 in. ( × cm) (image)9 11/16 × 12 3/4 in. ( × cm) (sheet), Watercolor, United States, 19th century, This is the first known picture by a non-Native artist of people harvesting Minnesota’s proudest hotdish ingredient. The birchbark canoe indicates these women are probably Anishinaabe (Ojibwe); Dakota people typically carved canoes from tree trunks. One woman steadies the canoe while the others bend stalks over the gunwale and gently release the seeds with paddles. The wild grain is then gathered

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