My reason for my interests to my topic is to spread awareness and change the amount of usage with alcohol and substances. I want to connect with people who might be going through the same things I did as a kid.  It was tough to grow up feeling misplaced with a lot of alcohol usage going on in the family. Mentally it wasn't a good way to grow into a healthy kid  and get into something you want to pursue. To me it's a big setback to be able to alter into adulthood.  All my life i've seen everything that the drugs or alcohol does to a person, it wasn't a good image for me and my siblings only because we were just kids. A lot of change has happened where i had to become the "parent" to my brothers and sisters, not enough support was there for me 

In the article, "Sharing One Skin," by Jeanette Armstrong. She talks about the Okanagan way of life, their ideology. She discusses their meanings of each self that is deeper than we actually think, It goes into their perception of life that is genuine.  Armstrong also talks about being closely connected to her tribe where she gains her strength. This is also what the Okanagans go by, they believe their community is "sharing one skin" because they are all committed to be connected to their community and family, not being apart. 

Names have a big impact on how we see landscapes, just like this article talks about the hidden stories behind the views. This article helps educate those who may not be aware of the harm caused when we overlook untold stories. It emphasizes the importance of reclaiming our sovereignty and preserving history for healing and growth. 

In the article “Native American Boarding Schools and Assimilation” by Liz Sonneborne speaks about how young children were taken from Native homes and brought to schools to transform into a white society. They did this so they could wipe out all of the native people. “Kill the Indian save the man” meaning they thought their education was more important than the native peoples cultures and traditions. This was a good and bad thing for the native people because it gave them better opportunities to live a better life than what they were around but it was bad because they had to leave behind all their cultures and traditions they had learned. 

This article was about allowing Native Americans to resurrect their culture and traditions that were lost to government expansion and encroachment in the earlier years. Many acts were in place like the Dawes Act that had broken up tribal lands and allotted them to individual members of tribes. The act had opened up lands for non-American Indians leaving the Native Americans hardly anything. These losses had virtually destroyed traditional tribal governments on their reservations. Soon the Secretary of the Interior authorized a survey that led to uncover the Meriam Report. This was another federal policy of allotting to individual tribe members plots of tribal land. It also resulted in poverty and substantial loss of tribal land due to white settlers. Then the Indian Reorganization Act of 1934 terminated the Dawes Act allotment system that gave Native Americans many opportunities to do what the white people were able to do. The goal of the act was to give greater independence to local tribes, not individual members, which was to strengthen tribal self-government. 

In the article “American Genocide of the Indians- - HIstorical Facts and Real Evidence” was about getting rid of all the Indians that lived on the land that the white settlers wanted to live on. Genocide was a big thing back when they wanted all Indians dead. Genocide had inflicted great losses on humanity for the Indians, it brung violent attacks upon the indians. White people swarmed into Indian areas and started a massacre that resulted in thousands of Indians being dead. There was no rest for the white people until all Indians were gone, “the only good Indian is a dead Indian.”

The article was about how high Native American rates were using any type of substance, compared to any other ethnic group. Native Americans was the largest group to be involved in activities dealing with substance and needing help afterward to stop using any type of drug that they were hooked up on. Trying to get help was tough because they had lacked in many suitable treatments for them to be able to get better. With this problem the rates of Native Americans being affected by substance continued to go up.  

This article is about how much youth affects a family once they start to use substances. Families want help to support their child who uses substances because they worry about what could go wrong with their child. Although they don't get enough support from medical systems they give most of their attention to the child that is an addict or becoming one. Making the other children that they have feel left out When this happens it adds on to the stress that the parents are dealing with making them feel very helpless. Many parents have thoughts about giving up on helping their child because they won't meet them halfway, wanting to feel better. It's harder for some parents because they are new to the situation of dealing with substance use that is affecting their child. 

This article was about how many people are affected mentally and physically after using substances and during the use of substances. Many people complain about the pain they deal with that causes their bodily systems to dysfunction. They have increased disabilities in work, family, and social environments creating anxiety, mood, and neurodevelopmental disorders. Depression starts to form when they can't do the things that they used to be able to do, this is where lifestyle interventions come in. Lifestyle interventions are strategies for people in need of help. Therapies and exercises are provided to improve both their mental and physical health, leading to improved health outcomes for people with chronic illness and mental health disorders. 

When Drinking alcohol it says people are most likely to take medications, more specially older people. Ones who aren't as old take the medication to help wear off the high or dizzyness, little do some know that it improves the effctiveness. Taking medicine when having alcohol in your system is very harmful to your body. When your body becomes toxic you tend to have trouble concentrating or preforming mechanical skills. Medications are typically safe when used appropriately when not the medicine has a less of an effect on making you or your body feel better. Other than that alcohol is more affective on women meaning it effects them differently than it does men. When a woman drinks the alcohol in her bloodstream reaches a higher level than a man even if they both drink the same amount. The reason for this is because a womens bodies have less water than a mans. Alcohol is more connected in womans body than in a mans, this makes women more harmful to alcohol related damage. This also goes back to old people because aging slows down the body's ability to break down the alcohol meaning the high stays longer. 

This article was about transitioning to an adult, having individual - level strategies and environmental level strategies. Beginning with transitioning time the article states that after high school a lot of us teens have plenty of time on our hands to try drugs and get hooked on it. When entering the next chapter of our lives most of us young adults have a high rate for misusing alcohol and having a disorder. The article also talks about the startegies we can use to support our community to prevent alcohol misuse among the young adults. The strategies being individual level strategies and environmental level strategies. These strategies help us to not use or stop using substance. Environmental strategies is keeping our surroundings out of sight of alcohol banners and posters to prevent alcohol usage. This whole article is helping us to stop usage of substance. 

The article was about drug use and mental health comorbidity that refers to the co-occurance of substance abuse and mental health disorders. This means that someone who struggles with drug use may also experience mental health issues like anxiety or depression. The connection is complex and can make a siginificant impact on a persons well-being. This is important to address both aspects when seeking treatment and support. Also its important to understand that the two issues often go hand in hand. Substance abuse can worsen existing mental health conditions or even trigger new ones,this goes the same with mental health.