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Native Americans in Arizona share strategies for restoring access to traditional foods.

Although Día de los Muertos has been commercialized and thought to be the “Mexican Halloween,” it remains a day of remembrance. Those who celebrate also remember the origins of the holiday, which reach back to the Aztecs.

A group of women helped develop the Phoenix Food Action Plan, which works to eliminate food deserts in Phoenix and improve accessibility to healthful, affordable food.

For these Mexican restaurant owners and chefs in Phoenix, embracing vegan and vegetarian foods is a way to reclaim heritage and health.

Mexican restaurant owners and chefs in Phoenix are embracing vegan and vegetarian foods to reclaim their heritage and improve health. Heres how.

With Native Americans experiencing the nation's second highest risk of pregnancy-related mortality, a renewed focus on traditional foods is helping them achieve healthy births while addressing ongoing traumas of colonization and food apartheid.

and the people arent coffee experts. They are volunteers roasting coffee at the Quetzal Co-Op, a nonprofit organization that supports and raises money for native and indigenous communities. The coffee in the roaster comes from Mexico and Guatemala, and is grown by farmers who are native to those areas as well.  Quetzal buys green coffee beans from family farms in five different regions in central and South America, roasts them in Phoenix and sells it at markets and coffee shops around the Val...