If you are interested in attending the Lac Vieux Desert Manoomin (Wild Rice) camp for the entire weekend, the Decolonizing Diet Project will drive a limited number of DDP research subjects to the camp. However, we respectfully request that you call the Center for Native American Studies to sign up at 227-1397. This is a rough camping area - but very beautiful. You would need to bring your own tent. There are showers – but no drinking water (we brush our teeth with bottled water). There is also a shared kitchen space and meals are bring your own food and dishes (and dish soap). Participants will carve ricing sticks, make ricing poles and actually go out on the boats for harvesting rice. Additional harvesting steps will also be introduced. We are asking that DDP subjects sign up by noon on Friday, August 24 so we can submit numbers to Roger LaBine early. The drive to the Lac Vieux Desert powwow grounds is about two hours one way from Marquette. If you would like to drive on your own and participate just one day, you can do that too, but you will need to contact Roger directly to sign up for the camp.
