In the Novel Recovering the Sacred: The Power of Naming and Changing, the author Winona LaDuke, discusses the attempts made by Native Americans to reclaim their land, religion, culture, resources, and everything else that originally belonged to them. Sacred items and Native American remains are in numerous museums and private collections all over the country, leaving the culture on display and not in wild with the rightful tribe. One of the most prominent examples of resources being stolen from the native people is when researchers at the University of Minnesota started genetically altering the wild rice which eventually led to the wild rice being contaminated by a sterile variety. Because the wild rice is being contaminated and turning
