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January 1, 2015
Feeding Ourselves: Food Access, Health Disparities, and the Pathways to Healthy Native American Communities
Author: Echo Hawk Consulting
Publishers: American Heart Association, Voices for Healthy Kids
This report explores the complex historical and contemporary challenges to Native American healthy food access, childhood obesity, and health disparities. Looking first at the historical context of colonization, the treatment of Native Americans as sovereign Tribal Nations, and the evolution of Federal Indian policy, Feeding Ourselves frames the work ahead to engage and assist Native communities in moving beyond this condition.