Alcoholism and Pine Ridge Indian Reservation

Alcoholism has so far been one of the greatest social problems in our country, and it has many negative aspects. Alcohol and alcohol abuse has been a part of society for centuries. When the first settlers landed on the American coast, this habit was brought to the new world. In addition, during the process of bringing alcohol to new land, Indian Indians are being introduced in products that have a greater negative impact than any other product. The impact may continue in the future.

Earlier this year, before I went to Pine Ridge, I talked to a person named David Espinoza. Espinosa was founded jointly with the group Boys With Braids to promote cultural pride of indigenous young people in Lakota Indians born in Rosebud Reserve east of Pine Ridge. "This cultural shame, it is a tool designed to let us lose human nature, it basically destroys our idealism, we are the foundation of human beings," he said . It has been permeating for centuries to keep abandoning his mother at all the Lakota who had trouble finally lost or not because he did not know how to cope with them, at the age of fifteen, when he spent his mother in federal prison. It was. It is pressure. "We are experiencing pain," he said. This is not our fault

Olowan Martinez who came home said that the reservation of Pine Ridge is unfortunate. "People are watching our community at Pine Ridge Indian Reserve ... you see only poverty, violence, and bad things, but there are many benefits here - just our house Not for everyone's home country, "she said

Among all reservations in Dakota, Pine Ridge is the most popular nationwide level. There are some explanations about this identification. First of all, in the early conservation history, Pine Ridge was the site of the tragedy of Ny Creek founded in 1890, and most of the Minneconjou Teton Sioux of the Chief Bigfoot Band was annihilated by the 7th Cavalry. In the recent history, state media attention has focused on the Indian knee community injured by members of the American Indian Movement (AIM) in 1973. Ograla encountered various kinds of adversities, but it is still vibrant, hopeful and culturally complete.