Climate changing is affecting the way 5.2 million American Indians and Alaska Natives are living, 1.1 million of them on reservations or native lands. As these indigenous people are already profoundly poor, the fluctuations climate change brings, hits them even harder. Food and drink which are simple for us to get, is not for them. Food like salmon, shellfish, marine mammals, and the conventional crops are becoming more difficult to produce or find, which hurts these people economically, culturally, etc. This change in their diet and the already less than perfect lifestyle, are causing them to get sick, and further hurt their population. Climate change has additionally caused events like droughts, wildfires, and pest outbreaks to occur. This
