text: The homeless issue is about addiction to alcohol and other substances to numb the mind to hopelessness. In terms of homeless Natives, and there are many who are, that started 100 or more years ago when missionaries came to tell them they were created from the devil because of they sang and danced to satanic drum beats and Native songs. That was wrong then, and it is wrong now.
  
  Those Natives songs and dances were either prayers to the Great Power or in thanks for life. These homeless people have broken spirits. There’s nothing left. Only a return to their original spirituality and beliefs will save them. That’s the key. 
  
  Spending millions of dollars a year to fix symptoms to save a few hundred broken souls is not a wise thing to do. Fix their spiritual beings and no, not with Western Christian religion. That’s the worst thing to do to any aboriginal whose culture has been completely erased in order to “save” them from hell.