Bottom line is in every village, there is a white guy that makes his living selling them booze. When the sober native leaders go to the state liqour boards and beg to have liqour license revoked because of all the alcohol related deaths they are laughed at and rebuffed. Our village was 400 natives 100 years back; now 28 remain. We have lost 5 to alcohol in the last 2 years. Freeze in snowbanks, get drunk and burn up in their cabin, suicide in drunken stupor, just on and on. Sad thing is everyone can see the nx five to die too.
Got to remember, these were a stoneage people 50 years back; I really believe that 5 generation timeframe to assimilate into our world now that I have seen theirs. So many of their problems would go away if they could just limit access to the alcohol.