American Indians seem to have no control where alcohol is involved. My paternal gfather -Cherokee-was a pretty bad one when he was young. By the time I knew him he was old and calmed down. My dad is the 8th of 10, so I missed grandpa’s drunkenness. Have 2 brothers who are unadmitted drunks, 2 sisters and myself can take it or leave it. We have a drink once in awhile, but it puts us to sleep so we don’t very often. Personally, I think there was no tolerance there to start with and each succeeding generation has less.
I’ve been designated driver for my crowd since about one minute after I got my license!
Yes, American Indians are born with a craving for alcohol or else the opposite.
It always made me sick, so I too was the driver, long before I had a drivers license.
I too have a brother who cannot stay sober and my parents drank too much.
I have thought for years that the alcohol craving was tied to the blood sugar and it is now said that diabetes is common in the American Indian.
LOL, my father is a half breed, my mother’s father a full blood and a Baptist Minister as is one of my brothers.
Odd how we humans turn out.