In my village, I have one indian friend that hasn't had a drink in 15 years, yet he has lost 5 of his own kids to booze. Burn up drunk in their cabin, freeze to death, get drunk and kill someone or shoot themselves, just on and on.
I've helped dig graves in the middle of winter, had indian friends lifeflighted out of here, heart stopping on the way, know a few blind natives, and just watched the continuous cycle of pain and death from the booze. If they could get a handle on the booze, they wouldn't need any govt money to straighten everything out; cause they're good sharing people part of their culture and character.
It is not racist to say that those peoples that were on this continent before the Europeans, should not drink and cannot handle alcohol. It is in many of the treaties that they negotiated with the federal govt. I am of the opinion, that the tribal leaders pushed that, they knew better than anyone the destructiveness of booze on their people.