
FIGHT SIOUX ALCOHOLISM
BEER BLOCKADE TO FIGHT SIOUX ALCOHOLISM
In a desperate effort to fight the ravages of alcoholism on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, leaders of the Oglala Sioux tribe are threatening to set up roadblocks Wednesday and stop members from bringing in beer bought at four outlying stores.
Ref. https://www.cnn.com/2006/US/06/27/beer.blockade.ap/index.html
This is a unique situation in which a very real problem is being dealt with in a very different way. Its almost like Native American prohibition in the sense that they are physically blockading the alcohol. I have heard from other Native Americans that they don't like having them be associated with alcoholism. But this makes it hard to separate the idea.