This book is a collection of essays on the causes and possible solutions to the growing and already vast epidemic of diabetes in indigenous communities. Although the title refers to indigenous people in general, most of the articles focus on the political and geographic area of North America including Hawaii. The book features one article on Reunion Island and one on Australia. This is not so much a criticism as it might serve as an explanation for the premises of the book, namely a political approach to an illness that affects indigenous populations more widely than non indigenous propulations. It is probably also a reflection fo the distribution of scientific inquiry - probably dependent on the distribution of scientific monies and of the complex system of political and academic distribution of power.