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Aug 29, 2017 · Native Americans and Alcoholism

No, alcohol abuse is not a disease, and the solutions – and there are many of them – are no different for Native Americans than they are for the rest of us. But it requires the courage to acknowledge the mistakes of the past, to implement real change, and to withstand the objections and sabotaging of those who profit from business as usual.

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In addition to personal and community factors there are also political factors. Leadership within some Native American entities is jealously held by families or individuals who see promoting alcohol abuse as a way of maintaining their positions and preventing rivals from threatening their power. “As long as they’re drunks, and their children are drunks, my children’s future is secure,” is how one Fairbanks Athabascan matriarch put it to me over twenty years ago. She was right.

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Alcohol also helps blot out the depression and frustration that comes from a seemingly hopeless future. In many communities the most capable people have left. Generation after generation has seen a steady decline in leadership, stability, and ability. In some cases nearly all of the women have left, preferring the easier life available to them with non-Native husbands, college education, or city jobs. Who can blame them for leaving, or for the hopeless young men left behind from drowning their loneliness?

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However, it is true that across the continent, Native Americans do exhibit a higher percentage of alcohol abuse and dependence than many other groups, though again, not in every case. But given the degree, it’s tempting to want alcoholism to be a disease, rather than looking for more complicated and less forgiving causes. But, and again, for the rest of us, these rates really are a reflection of an accumulation of numerous contributing factors.

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After a moment’s thought I gave her the answer that has evolved out of the past forty years of my work, observations, research, discussion, and reflection. First, the repeatedly discredited “disease model” negatively impacts everyone suffering from alcohol abuse – not just Native Americans; and second, “Native American” is also a counter-productive term, one implying that there is only one homogeneous group indigenous to North America. Nothing could be farther from the reality.

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A colleague recently asked me for my opinion of the applicability of the “disease model” of alcoholism with regard to Native Americans. I knew she asked partly because my adopted children are Inyupik, from alcohol devastated families in northwestern Alaska, but also because I have worked with non-traditional ways of combating alcohol abuse for over twenty years.

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Here are a few on the subject of Native American genealogy:

: Excellent how-to book for people who want to trace their American Indian ancestry.