Not surprisingly, for people who live on Native reservations in the U.S.—similarly to those who live in low-income neighborhoods—access to grocery stores can be either severely limited or astronomically expensive.  Reservations are widely known to be food apartheids, meaning areas that lack fresh fruit, vegetables or healthy whole foods. These areas are commonly chock full of small overpriced convenience stores that sell an abundance of snacks and soda, but since many American Indian and Alaska Native Tribal areas have low population densities and high poverty rates, large grocers typically do not establish a presence in these areas—leaving people to drive hours to get to larger, more affordable grocery stores. Read more