1088 WILD RICE GATHERERS OF UPPER LAKES _ [&TH.any.19 
Warren says that in 1862 the Ojibwa of Leech lake, Minnesota, 
gathered sufficient wild rice for winter consumption.t Carver wrote 
that the Indians saved the grain for an entire year. He speaks of the 
sacks of fawn skins and young bison skins ‘‘ wherein they preserve 
it till the return of their harvest.”* In 1775 Alexander Henry wrote 
of obtaining wild rice from the Indians in Canada, immediately north 
of the wild-rice district in the United States, about ten months after 
their last haryest.* 
Letters of inquiry sent to reservations on which Indians now use 
wild rice elicited no new facts as to the time of its consumption. The 
grain is very highly esteemed as a food, and is usually eaten at any 
and all meals until the supply is exhausted. 

1 Warren, History of the Ojibways, p. 186. 
2Carver, Travels, p. 524. 
8 Henry, Travels, pp. 241, 243, 244, 251. 
