January 22, 2021

Data And Storytelling Inform Food Insecurity Research On The Wind River Indian Reservation

Author: Taylar Stagner

On the Wind River Indian Reservation, it's hard to get things like fresh vegetables. And that lack of access is a contributor to the fact that Native Americans on the reservation have a life expectancy 20 years shorter than non-Indigenous people in the state.
In 2016, 23 percent of Native Americans on the Wind River Reservation said they did not have adequate funds for food.
That same year a community-based research project called Growing Resilience received a grant to do research on food insecu