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Diabetes rates have been worsened by systemic inequities, but health leaders hope an understanding of tribes' cultures will help reverse the trend.
Native American tribes have long struggled with high rates of diabetes. COVID made the problem even more urgent. Nada Hassanein, USA TODAY © Inés Ixierda Sogorea Te' Land Trust Quail Creek community garden Heather Mars-Martins and her family would dive off the coast of Westerly, Rhode Island, to catch quahogs, clams native to the eastern shores long foraged by her Narragansett tribe. Mars-Martins and her family would swim back up to their canoes and head home to make traditional chowders or shellfish pies. But often, her diabetes complications interrupted those trips, and ...