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  2. Native American temperance activists - Wikipedia

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    A number of prominent Native Americans have protested against the social and cultural damage inflicted by alcohol on indigenous communities, and have campaigned to raise awareness of the dangers of alcohol and to restrict its availability to Native populations.

  3. Alcohol and Native Americans - Wikipedia

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    [120] [121] [122] A 2012 study by researchers at Colorado State University surveyed 1399 students in 33 schools in 11 US states and found that 52.8% of all Native American 8th-graders and 67.5% of all Native American 12th-graders had experimented with alcohol, compared with 13.8% and 41.1% of non-Native students in the same schools.

  4. Don Coyhis - Wikipedia

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    Don Lawrence Coyhis (born August 16, 1943) is an alcohol and addiction recovery counselor known for designing treatment programs primarily for Native Americans.He is the founder and president of White Bison, Inc., a non-profit charitable organization devoted to assisting Native Americans who are affected by substance use disorders.

  5. Montana GOP Senate Hopeful Peddles Racist Trope About ... - AOL

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    At a pair of private fundraising events a few months later, in November, Sheehy disparaged the Crow Tribe by peddling a longstanding racist trope about Native Americans and alcoholism, according ...

  6. Fox News Host: Native Americans Are Alcoholics Hooked on the ...

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    Fox NewsFox News host Rachel Campos-Duffy asserted on Wednesday night that Native Americans’ struggles have “everything to do with government dependency” and “alcoholism.”Her colleague ...

  7. Native American policy of the Barack Obama administration

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    The United States public policy agenda on issues affecting Native Americans under the Obama administration includes the signing of the Tribal Law and Order Act of 2010, which allowed tribal courts to extend and expand sentences handed down to them in criminal cases, strengthening tribal autonomy.

  8. Bureau of Indian Affairs - Wikipedia

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    The Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA), also known as Indian Affairs (IA), [2] is a United States federal agency within the Department of the Interior.It is responsible for implementing federal laws and policies related to Native Americans and Alaska Natives, and administering and managing over 55,700,000 acres (225,000 km 2) of reservations held in trust by the U.S. federal government for ...

  9. Native American policy of the Richard Nixon administration

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    From 1969 to 1974, the Richard Nixon administration made important changes to United States policy towards Native Americans through legislation and executive action. . President Richard Nixon advocated a reversal of the long-standing policy of "termination" that had characterized relations between the U.S. federal government and American Indians in favor of "self-determi