Native Americans began cultivating wild rice many millennia ago. An important staple in this traditional diet, various tribes across the northern United States and Canada developed hundreds of heirloom varieties during this time.
Given the nutrient density of wild rice, it makes sense why ancestral North American cultures prized it so highly and cultivated it so carefully!
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