Inflation reduces access to Indigenous foods
Traditional Indigenous foods — like wild rice, bison, fresh vegetables and fruit in the Midwest — are often inaccessible for Native families with low incomes in urban areas, and the recent inflation spike has propelled these healthy foods even further out of reach. Jessica Pamonicutt, executive chef of a Native American catering service in Chicago, said food prices and out-of-state shipping costs have risen so much in the past year that she asked her parents to grow Native foods for her catering business on their land in Wisconsin.
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