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TUESDAY, MAY 21, 2002

Native American activists and their supporters on Monday protested rice research taking place at the University of Minnesota.

The White Earth Land Recovery Project and other groups said the school's work amounts to colonialism of a traditional Native crop. Scientists have adapted wild rice species and are mapping its genes.

Get the Story:
Minnesota Indians want U rice research to stop (The Minneapolis Star Tribune 5/21)
U.S. Indians Protest Rice Research (AP 5/20)

Relevant Links:
White Earth Land Recovery Project - http://www.welrp.org/index.html