Adherence to Native
American traditions help Native American youth avoid drugs and alcohol
WELL YUH!
Native Americans do not
separate spirituality from other areas of their life, making it more complex,
both socially and culturally, because it is intertwine with their daily
existence.
Hold on a minute there Kulis, you are not correct in your following
statement!
“Most American Indians
now live in cities rather than tribal communities.
Our study is one of the
few to address the role of spirituality and religion among urban Native youth,
recognizing the unique histories of cultural integration that characterize
today’s urban American Indian communities and the complex belief systems and
practices that sustain them in the urban landscape,” Kulis said.
We in the east, the
Traditional American Natives in the New England area have known this for
hundreds Ya, thousands of years and have been preaching this for that long!
Native American youths,
in urban areas, who follow traditional Native American spiritual beliefs are
less likely to abuse drugs and alcohol.
The American Journal of
Drug and Alcohol Abuse with an article called “Spirituality and Religion:
Intertwined Protective Factors for Substance Use Among Urban American Indian
Youth”.
If
you check records you will find out that the so called " unrecognized
tribes" throughout the New York, New Jersey and New England area teach
their young our culture and ceremonies and that our young are not drug or
alcohol abusers, at least not the ones brought up in our Traditional Matriarch
Society, as far back as you can while trace our Sachems!
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