Join Honor the Earth Executive Director, Winona LaDuke, and special guests on August 27th at 6:00 pm at Lutheran Church of the Cross in Nisswa for a traditional indigenous feast in honor and celebration of the wild rice harvest of Northern Minnesotas clean and bountiful lakes. This Manoominike Giizis, or Wild Rice Moon Feast is sponsored by Honor the Earth, Brainerd Coalition for Peace, and presented by The Sioux Chef, and Slow Food. In 2003, the Anishinaabe won the prestigious international Slow Food Award for work to protect wild rice from genetic engineering and patenting. The award was presented in Florence Italy, and the Anishinaabe Wild Rice Presidium remains one of two North American Presidia to honor unique and endangered foods. This year, a new feast beckons the North Country. This dinner is one of several stops along Honor the Earths Love Water Not Oil Tour, which includes a spiritual horse ride against the current of the proposed Sandpiper Pipeline and Line 3 corridor; from Rice Lake Refuge (near McGregor) to Rice Lake, on the White Earth Reservation. Riders will be joined by families canoeing some of the chains of lakes in the north, all of which would be at risk from an oil spill. The ride, including dinners and celebrations along the way, aims to document and raise awareness of the environmental, cultural, and economic resources of MNs highest quality watersheds at risk due to the proposal for a new energy corridor. Wild rice harvesters will be featured in the two weeks of ride and educational programs. This event features Chef Sean Sherman, also known as the Sioux Chef, Oglala Lakota Sioux of the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota, who will prepare a meal of pre-colonial inspired Native American cuisine. Sherman has spent the past 25 years harvesting wisdom from his ancestors by studying the indigenous knowledge of wild foods prior to colonization. With that knowledge, Sherman prepares modern dishes utilizing wild and cultivated food of the Dakota and Ojibwa Tribes. With his new restaurant and learning center open in the Twin Cities, we are grateful to have him join us as an honored chef. The feast will include wild rice crusted red lake walleye, maple roasted sun choke and squash, grilled native corn, wild green salad with cranberry dressing, blueberry sorbet, and much more! Special musical guests will join us at the meal. Our wild rice, our manoomin is a sacred food, and it is part of the greatness of these waters. The rice is threatened by mining, oil and other projects. To us, honoring and celebrating this gift, is how we are thankful, Winona LaDuke said. If you are concerned about Northern Minnesotas high quality watersheds, lakes, and tourist economy, and are interested in a delicious, locally made dinner, with enjoyable music, this is an event you will not want to miss.Join Honor the Earth in celebration and to support our efforts, and learn how you can become part of the movement to reroute oil pipelines from the Northern Lakes Region.Tickets: $40/person; visit Sioux-chef.com or honorearth.org to purchase tickets and RSVP