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The Wild Rice Gatherers of the Upper Lakes is published, casting Native cultivation as "inefficient."

Date: 1900

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In this University of Minnesota publication, the authors assess Anishinaabe cultural ways, and "determine" that traditional wild rice cultivation practices are "inefficient" and "hold back" Anishinaabe progress. They use this to build a case for the private industrialized production of wild rice.