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Ending food insecurity in Native communities means restoring land rights, handing back control

  • Written by Valarie Blue Bird Jernigan, Professor of Rural Health, Oklahoma State University
imageHandouts from food banks are no substitute for self-sufficiency.Mark Ralston/AFP via Getty Images

For Indigenous people in the U.S., food is considered a sacred gift. Healthy and bountiful produce is received when we care for the land.

Yet, with one in four Native Americans lacking reliable access to healthy foods and Indigenous peoples disproportion...

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