Teresa Leger Fernandez actually said...

"Right now, currently Native Americans have some of the highest rates of food insecurity and the highest rates of diabetes."

"I want to pick up on the time remaining to me about the importance of purchasing that fresh produce made in dairy locally."

"I am reintroducing the Tribal Nutrition Improvement Act to make sure tribes can administer directly food assistance programs."

"I am actually told that there is no word for hunger or poverty in Keres, or other indigenous languages because no one would be left hungry or without food or what they need to survive."