If you think inflation is bad, it's even worst for the first people here:
’29 dollars for grapes?!’: Food insecurity in Indigenous communities is getting worse
Food poverty is not exclusive to Indigenous communities, but they are disproportiona tely affected by it.
One in four Native Americans experiences food insecurity, compared to one in eight non-Native Americans. There are a plethora of reasons why: The majority of tribal populations have been found to live over a mile away from grocery stores, incomes are at or below the federal poverty line and some communities live in remote, fly-in-only regions.
Shina Novalinga, an Inuit throat singer with over 4 million TikTok followers, posted a video in September 2021 about price discrepancies in grocery stores. In her video, Novalinga shared photos of strawberries costing $14, Heinz ketchup costing $16 and a bag of grapes costing $28.