and the subtle messages that we are less than zero, for the colonials benefit to reinforce their colonial right to take the Natives resources and lands by denigrating Natives to nothing, with no meaningful protest from Native leaders.
I say that we should be proactive and deal with the historical trauma which leads to alcohol and drug abuse, which leads to physical, mental and sexual abuse to the youth, which leads them to alcohol and drug abuse, and the downward spiral to a life of substance abuse, and at the bottom of that downward spiral is suicide. We wait until we get studied again, and the study gets hijacked by whatever treatment program is going that is getting money, but it still boils down to we are in a reactive mode, relying on treatment programs after the fact, instead of a proactive mode, giving our children alcohol and drug awareness and prevention, to empower them with education to teach them to go to people if they are abused, and make them sick of addictive substances