Lisa Jones

author, journalist

Lisa Jones has been a staff writer for High Country News (Paonia, CO), the Burlington (VT) Free Press, The Tico Times (San Jose, Costa Rica) and other publications. Her freelance work has appeared in the New York Times Magazine, Smithsonian, National Public Radio and numerous other media outlets. Her first book, BROKEN: A Love Story -- the story of her friendship with Stanford Addison, a Northern Arapaho quadriplegic horse gentler and traditional healer, was published by Scribner in May, 2009. She lives in Boulder, Colorado.

My website is www.lisajoneswrites.com

Articles

Ripple effects

Ripple effects

<p>The construction of a dam near an Indian reservation on the Missouri River forced residents to less fertile land and put an end to their farming habits. Since then, American Indians have experienced a lack of nutrition, leading to diabetes, hypertension and obesity.</p>

Health on the Fort Berthold Resevation

<p>It is a well-documented fact that from the late 1800s on, Native American tribes on the high plains were forced to abandon hunting and foraging as their primary means of feeding themselves. Instead, they started eating unhealthy processed ‘commodity foods’ supplied by the federal government. My project will focus on a trio of agricultural tribes on North Dakota's Fort Berthold Reservation, whose robust health lasted into the middle of the 20th century.