Yuuyaraq: The way of the Human Beings

Harold Napoleon the author of Yuuyaraq: The way of the Human Being tells about the tradition of Alaskan Yupik people. The hardship they endure with keeping their tradition alive, because of the Russians who colonize them. Having to set aside their way of living through generations, and with much history lost that it caused the Yupik people to undergo depression. Also with deaths from plague, and suicides of the yupik people. That with no council to help them grieve over the lost of tradition, and death of loved ones. The Yupik`s turn to alcohol to suppress there feeling of depression. Many other tribes were going through the same problems. With this issue it only create another bigger issue at hand the abuse of alcohol with Native and Indian Americans. I think the Author hit some of the cause of alcoholism in Natives and Indians Americans, but not much of the causes of today issues with alcoholism.


Juleesa Caldwell