Indigenous People On TikTok Are Exposing The Outrageously High Grocery Prices In Indigenous Communities

In 2018, Move for Hunger reported that one in eight Americans already face food insecurity. In Indigenous communities, that rate is three to four times higher. Food deserts — residential areas with little access to groceries, especially high-quality food —  have plagued low-income communities for centuries, because of the government regulations on community food programs, and restrictions on growing crops or hunting on reservation land. Basically, Indigenous communities are not only not given access to food, but they aren't allowed to grow their own crops either. "Almost one-half of all tribal area individuals had incomes at or below 200 percent of the Federal Poverty Level (FPL). Of those, 27.8 percent lived in walking distance from a supermarket, compared with 63.6 percent of low-income individuals nationwide," according to a 2014 USDA survey.

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