Summary: Each fall, the Ojibwa tribes of northern Minnesota harvest wild rice by hand. It's a long process that brings families in canoes into tall lake grasses. We journey to the rice lakes of White Earth Reservation to see how one tribe is using its traditions to support its people.
Who would have thought that a story about harvesting wild rice would be so interesting?
I had read previous stories about the Ojibwa tribes harvesting the rice by hand... the old fashioned way. But this piece brought the story alive.
Often times radio pieces include gratutious ambient sound and you just accept it as part of the formula. It's there and then it's gone.
But the producers of this audio postcard wove through the sounds so beautifully that it never once distracted from the story or made me wonder, "what was that?"
This is what storytelling.. for any medium... is all about.
Comments for Harvest on Big Rice Lake
This piece belongs to the series "Hidden Kitchens"
Produced by The Kitchen Sisters (Davia Nelson & Nikki Silva)
Other pieces by The Kitchen Sisters
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Traci Tong
Posted on May 30, 2006 at 07:59 PM | Permalink
Review of Harvest on Big Rice Lake
Visually appealing! Pricks all five senses.
Who would have thought that a story about harvesting wild rice would be so interesting?
I had read previous stories about the Ojibwa tribes harvesting the rice by hand... the old fashioned way. But this piece brought the story alive.
Often times radio pieces include gratutious ambient sound and you just accept it as part of the formula. It's there and then it's gone.
But the producers of this audio postcard wove through the sounds so beautifully that it never once distracted from the story or made me wonder, "what was that?"
This is what storytelling.. for any medium... is all about.