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Between 2000 and 2013, the consumption of ultra-processed products grew by more than 25% and fast food consumption grew almost 40% in Latin America. More than a decade on, from this rapid change in the region’s foodscape, we are seeing the alarming impact this has had on the health and well-being of the region. Indigenous communities have been particularly hard hit as their traditional food systems have been overshadowed by relentless marketing for processed foods and government-led policies and programs that popularize these foods in everyday life.
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- By Myrna Cunningham
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Guest Opinion. As Indian Country looks toward the arrival of a second Trump administration, it is critical to reflect on what this leadership might mean for tribal nations. Drawing on the policies and actions of the first Trump administration, Native communities may find both opportunities and significant challenges ahead. The landscape of federal-tribal relations under this administration is likely to be complex, necessitating vigilance and strategic advocacy to ensure tribal sovereignty and priorities are upheld.
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Guest Opinion. Indigenous McCarthyism seeks to establish an internal termination process through disinformation and divisiveness. State-recognized tribes have been accused of being frauds, and historically and politically problematic.
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- By Dr. Kenneth Barnett Tankersley
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Opinion. Unless the lame duck Congress acts, the Special Diabetes Program for Indians (SDPI) is due to expire on December 31, 2024 and funding will cease.
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- By Levi Rickert
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“We cared for our corn … as we would care for a child; for we Indian people loved our gardens, just as a mother loves her children.”
—-Buffalo Bird Woman, Hidatsa Seed Keeper (1917)
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- By Professor Victoria Sutton
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Guest Opinion. As a young child, I was terrified by the wicked witch of the West in the Hollywood adaptation of Frank L. Baum’s The Wizard of Oz. The witch’s long pointed chin, green face, sinister cackle, and the way she zoomed across the sky was the stuff of nightmares.
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- By Annette McGivney
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Guest Opinion. Thanksgiving has always been a conflicting time for me as an Indigenous person. In elementary school, I remember being forced to craft a paper pilgrim hat, as I had to watch another class of non-Indigenous people appropriate my culture as they created feathered headbands and painted their faces. We reenacted scenes of a peaceful feast shared between the Native Americans and Pilgrims. Teachers spoke of gratitude and cooperation, but no one ever asked me, the lone Native student in my class, how I felt about it. No one mentioned the pain, loss, or survival of my ancestors.
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- By Jeremy Harley
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Guest Opinion. Traditional American Thanksgiving acknowledges a feast shared between Pilgrims and Indigenous Native people. We know our people assisted with the early immigration process of those people arriving from Europe because they were pitiful, hungry and starving. We were kind and loving people who helped them. However, once they got a foothold, they tried to completely extinguish us, stole our lands and now we are supposed to be thankful. This runs similar to the “Redskin” mascot Issue or the “Columbus Day” celebration of genocide. Today, we are supposed to celebrate Thanksgiving, which is part of the “Broken Circle” corporate holidays.
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- By LaNada War Jack
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Editor’s Note: This commentary first appeared in the Los Angeles Times on November 23, 2017. Used with permission. All rights reserved.
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- By Tommy Orange
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Guest Opinion. As co-executive directors of Four Directions Native Vote, Barb and I write in recognition of Native American Heritage month, and with a reminder of the long, dark shadow of the Wounded Knee Massacre.
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- By OJ and Barb Semans