December 8, 2021

Food insecurity, price gouging have long been issues on Native reservations.

Author: Rebekah Sager

Members of the Larson family, who have no running water, sit outside their home in the Navajo Nation town of Thoreau, New Mexico, on May 22, 2020.
Not surprisingly, for people who live on Native reservations in the U.S.—similarly to those who live in low-income neighborhoods—access to grocery stores can be either severely limited or astronomically expensive.
Reservations are widely known to be food apartheids, meaning areas that lack fresh fruit, vegetables or healthy whole foods. These areas ar...