i am the chairman of the mandan, hidatsa, and arikara nation, also known as the three affiliated tribeshen i serve the best i can, it is an honour to be that, but it is also very difficult. it's very demanding and it is very stressful. one of the biggest reasons why social ills exist in indian country is because the answer has always been economic. but when the united states came in for their own purposes of flood control, recreation and hydropower, flood us out with their dams and destroy our backbone, that's where you begin to see the social ills begin to immensely take off, in the '50s, '60s, '70s, each decade getting worse and worse. 85% of all our crimes committed are alcohol or drug—related. 85%. the reality of the situation is we have to stop being a market. we never had a dea before, created a drug enforcement agency, drug treatment programme, getting people off of drugs, and we try to save lives by building what we're doing now, not ten years from now, not 20 years from now — now. this is good road recovery. they originally built it because we were sending a lot of people out f

nation. i am arikara, i am also the executive director of recovery services for mha. hi, how are you?ttage before he gets over there. i before he gets over there. i had a warrant for the 25 and seven programme because i had two duis here. they arrested me and they took me to burley county. 0k, ok, my room, my bad. i don't know how long i'm going to be here. it might be two months, three months, four months, i don't know. my addiction started when i was 13, ia, started when i was 13, 1a, around the. started with me stealing cigarettes and drinking a beer every once in awhile. then i started smoking more weed, and drinking bisley became heavier and heavier. i fell into pills when i was about 16. fell into pills when i was about16. i fell into pills when i was about 16. i loved the way pills made me feel, made me feel confident, made me feel like, yeah, i was confident, able to talk to chicks. my mum and dad would let me drink with them, as long as i would bust the guitar out, even on school nights. and then being recognised and having my ego stroked as a little misunderstood, broken lit