Drunk Driving

In a March 3, 2012 New York Times article, At Tribes Door, a Hub of Beer and Heartache, reporter Timothy Williams provides as yet another account of the terrible consequences associated with alcoholic drinkic beverage use of goods and services among inborn Americans.  This article, which of course joins many others on the same topic, touches on a number of familiar points, in particular the assumed incarnate susceptibility of inhering Americans to alcohol and their vulnerability to the agents of capitalism.
Whiteclay, Nebraska is a ramshackle hamlet on the b site not notwithstanding of South Dakota but of the Pine Ridge Indian reticenceâ€"which has banned alcohol since the 1970s. There, a small number of   sporting beer store owners sell annually almost five trillion cans of beer and malt liquorâ€"almost all to members of the Oglala Sioux tribe.

Whiteclay, NE
Pop: 14; Annual revenues from alcohol sales: $3 million
These are the up-to-the-minute version of the unscrupulous white traders who have populated the narratives of Native American drinking since the seventeenth century.  In this case, they offer to change income tax checks for a 3 percent commission and exchange 30 packs of Bud for a price higher than that aerated in New York City and more than twice the loss price in most of the country.



  In this account the ravages of alcohol consumption involve virtually every family.  As an reference of the depth of the problem, the Times notes that even a tribal delinquency president, a leader in the fight to restrict alcohol sales in Whiteclay, was recently arrested on alcohol-related charges.  In 2011 tribal police made 20,000 alcohol-related arrests in a reservation with an on the face of it undifferentiated population of 45,000.
The article reminds us that this is not well(p) a problem for the Oglala Sioux, but for Native Americans generally.  Without an explanation for the trammel to a national/racial scope, were reminded that about wholeness third of U.S. reservations ban alcohol and that excessive alcohol consumption is the leading cause...If you want to get a full essay, order it on our website: Ordercustompaper.com



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