Transcript: Tamara Pickett, M.D.
Native people feel like they don’t have control over their lives
- [Lindberg:]
- Are there any bad attitudes, or bad mental models, let’s say?
- [Pickett:]
- Yeah, I think we still see that a lot today like feeling like they don’t have control over issues in their community. They don’t have control over what’s happening to them economically, financially. They don’t have control over what they can get in the grocery store in rural communities.
- [Lindberg:]
- Why is that?
- [Pickett:]
- Because of transportation issues.
- [Lindberg:]
- Oh, it’s just not there?
- [Pickett:]
- It’s just not there. If you go into a grocery store in St. Paul or St. George, it’s very hard to eat in a healthy manner. You don’t have fresh vegetables and fruits or if you do, they’re three weeks old. They’re pretty rough looking. In a lot of cases getting water is more expensive than getting pop.