While searching for my Article 1 I found “Poisonous myths: New Mexico’s alcohol crisis affects Native, Anglo, Hispanic people similarly” this kind of relates to my topic. It talks about how in Gallup, NM the community deals with alcohol addiction, this addiction has borne some of its most devastating impacts. In Gallup, NM the bars and liquor stores draw customers from the two neighboring reservations the Navajo Nation and Zuni Pueblo. There’s a popular myth that says “New Mexico’s alcohol crisis primarily affects Native people”, to me this is false information because it is believed that even though the mortality rate is Native People was in line with Anglos and Hispanic residents. 

While reading “Liquid genocide: alcohol destroyed Pine Ridge reservation - then they fought back” The article talks about for years, 11,00 cans of beer were poured into the Pine Ridge Indian reservation in South Dakota, causing untold damages. In South Dakota, the home to 20,000 Oglala Lakota Sioux tribe members and where the sale of alcohol is banned. Whiteclay, Nebraska the town has no local government and only has 24 residents. For more than a century, its primary purpose has been to sell alcohol to the reservation’s residents. Over four million cans of beer had left the stores each year - 11,000 a day. In April, after a history of lawlessness and a recent spate of unsolved murders, the Nebraska state liquor commission voted to temporarily revoke all four licenses. Addiction in South Dakota is an endemic problem. Almost up to two-thirds of adults live with alcoholism. One in four children is born with fetal alcohol syndrome because the parent carrying the baby is constantly drinking. During dozens of interviews that happened during the week on the reservation, every single person who was spoken to had said they had either battled with addiction or had a family member who had dealt with addiction.