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  Let them eat fry bread! (the River be dammed)

  You could be forgiven for being confused about why I am posting this here but it's because I came looking for 'Fast Food Nation', trying to track the story of SW Indians pounding Wonder Bread into the ground for good in their Pow Wow, read Elizabeth's review, saw that she authored Undamming of America, and then happened upon this little snippet. This article in its entirety I found unconscionable, since they actually say this , cut&paste below, and go on to say that these Indians are being diligently studied to figure out why they are so obese and so prone to diabetes. I was stunned... undam their river for crying out loud, and give them back their water!!

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  "Scattered across a reservation about the size of Connecticut, the Pima and Tohono O'odham Indians lived off the land for thousands of years.

  A film from 1933 shows them farming the desert, growing their pima cotton and oranges. What you won't see are any fat people. But that was before the once-mighty Gila River, that watered the desert, was dammed to provide water for Phoenix, just 20 miles away. And it was before the men left to fight in World War II. When they returned, their farms were dried up, and the people were left starving. The government stepped in with surplus food -- lots of white flour and lard.

  "They had to learn how to say certain things like Wonder Bread, peanut butter," says Johnson.

  Now, desert farming is all but gone, and in its place is fast food and "fry bread," a deep-fried combination of flour and lard. It's also common to see 300-pound adults.
  http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/07/12/60II/main628877 ...On A review Fast Food Nation posted 1 year, 5 months ago 4 Responses

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  Wonder Bread Pow Wow

  Is it in Fast Food Nation; the story of a Pow Wow gathering triumphantly stomping the pappy-white bread into the ground down near the border, in recognition that this food is destroying the health of a people... ?(I want to reference that story and can't remember where I heard it.On A review Fast Food Nation posted 1 year, 5 months ago 4 Responses