Alcoholism Among Native Americans
A detailed Summary of Alcoholism Among Native Americans
One of the biggest concerns in the Native American community today is the
overwhelming presence of alcoholism. I was first informed of this by an old friend
that I served with in the Marine Corps. He had grown up on a reservation, and had
subsequently seen the horrors of this alcohol abuse firsthand. Growing up Irish-
American, I felt a strong empathy for this problem, and therefore felt it would be an
Suzan Shown Hario of Indian Country Today wrote an outstanding article recounting
the horrific death of a 21-year-old Muscogee woman who was run over by a car full of
Native American men driving around drunk in Tulsa, Oklahoma. These men even went
so far as to fabricate a story in which white racists had purposely murdered this woman
falsely believing that she was Middle Eastern. Fortunately, this lie did not hold up with
the authorities and the aforementioned guilty parties are now awaiting trial and will hope-

Human Services Department issued the results of its national survey of substance abuse
detail on why some teens grow up with the notion that it is acceptable to drink
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