| High Percentage of Native Americans Die from Alcohol |
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| by Tom McGregor | Fri, Aug 29, 2008, 02:04 PM |
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The Houston Chronicle reports that, “the report released Thursday by the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found 11.7 percent of deaths among American Indians and Alaska Natives between 2001 and 2005 were alcohol-related, compared with 3.3 percent for the CDC epidemiologist Dwayne Jarman, who works for the Indian Health Service and is one of the study’s authors, said it is the first national survey that measures American Indian deaths from alcohol. This should be a “call to action” for federal, state, local and tribal governments, he said. The researchers analyzed death certificates over the four-year period and had obtained these particular statistics. According to the Chronicle, “the two leading causes of alcohol-related deaths among Indians were traffic accidents and alcoholic liver disease, each of which causes more than a quarter of the 1,514 alcohol-related deaths. Also listed are homicide (6.6 percent of alcohol-related deaths), suicide (5.2 percent) and injuries in falls (2.2 percent).” To read the entire article from the Houston Chronicle, link here:
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written by Homer Fincannon , August 31, 2008 From the Autograph Autobiography of Russell Means,Where White Men Fear To Tread-"Because Indians have no rights,we therefore have to take anything and everything the government forces upon us. BIA superintendents dictate policies-rarely consistent from one reservation to the next-bred by racism,indifference, and ineptitude. Every Indian suffers the consequence- poverty,enforced by the might and power of the federal government." "Even those with jobs were- and still are- paid wages so low that to survive, they had to eat "surplus" commodities provided by the U.S. Department of AGRICULTURE."Being forced to subsist on those surplus foodstuffs underpins yet another dimension of the BIA's genocidal policies- rampant alcoholism. Most of the commodity are cheap and filling, bean,flour, and potato products-mostly starch. Starch, of course, turns to surgar as soon as the enzymes in saliva act on it. A fter months and years of steadily ingesting starch, the human becomes addicted to sugar. When a pregnant woman is forced to eat that starchy diet, the child growing in her womb also becomes physiologically addicted to sugar. The quickest way to get sugar into the body is through alcohol,since it goes directly into the bloodstream, so when such a child is born, he or she is far more likely to be alcoholic as an adult. " Look at all obesity among our children of the underprivilleged today in 2008.I was born and raised on the Osage Indian Reservation,and a Half Brother "Howell,Johnny"a Pawneefought with Russell at Wounded Knee. I moved to Dallas from the Army at Fort Sill in 1961. I`am now running for a Texas State Representative seat District 111. Write comment
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Almost 12 percent of the deaths among Native Americans and Alaska Natives are alcohol-related – more than three times the percentage in the general population, a new federal report says.
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