Addiction in Alaska: How Alcohol Abuse is Impacting Community Members in Native Villages throughout Rural Alaska

• Main Author: Casillo, Cristina
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: SIT Digital Collections 2012
• Subjects: Bilingual; Multilingual; and Multicultural Education; Civic and Community Engagement; Family; Life Course; and Society; Other Languages; Societies; and Cultures; Rural Sociology; Arctic; Point Hope; eskimo*; Alaska
• Online Access: https://digitalcollections.sit.edu/capstones/2537; https://digitalcollections.sit.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=3572&context=capstones

Across rural Alaska are over 200 Alaska Native villages so isolated, they are only accessible by airplane, boat, and snowmachine. These villages strive to keep their Native culture alive and rich, but continue to struggle against Western influences. Introduced to Alaska Natives by European and Russi...