Native American women discuss empowering people to overcome their current circumstances through eating as their ancestors did -- nutritiously and locally. Explores the food-sovereignty movement occurring across the country through the stories of women championing the return to traditional food sources. Features Roxanne Swentzell from Santa Clara Pueblo in New Mexico, whose Pueblo Food Experience project is transforming lives in her community and across the continent by Tlingit, Muckleshoot, Oglala Sioux, Menominee and Seneca women. Through personal, character-based storytelling, offers examples of alternative pathways to health and wellness for American Indians and demonstrates how returning to ancestral food sources can strengthen cultural ties to each other and to one's heritage. Type II diabetes is especially common to Native Americans, who do not always know about the disease and can be helped through the ancestral diet.