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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 aren't 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 Valley. Eve Reyes-Aguirre has been part of the Quetzal Co-Op for 22 years. She started as a voluntee...