Let me see if I can say this right without being told where to go….LOL…which happens quite often I might add. First it was westernized Christian religion. Then came the booze. Then hairwon. (heroin). Now we’re a mess. Alaska Natives that is.

Ban that. Banish them. Keep pot outta the villages. Jail the bootleggers. Devil booze anyhow. 

But wait. It is my most humble opinion that Alaska Natives got messed up outta the gate with the Christian thing – going to hell for raising hell and going to heaven for not raising hell. Punishment and reward. Everyday, punishment and reward. That’s not for me. So I chucked western religion out the window and into the trash bin where it belongs. No hell. No heaven. Don’t worry about getting saved. Don’t need to. 

That wasn’t part of Native spirituality anyway. Neither were the imagined devils the missionaries brought. Drink or not drink. I have that choice. That’s the power of my own Native spirituality.