Transcript: Martin Waukazoo

Alcoholism as a blessing that led to an awareness of losing traditional ways

[Waukazoo:]: You know, we never want alcohol in our communities, but you also have to make friends with it. Same way with diabetes, you make friends with it. It becomes your relative, and alcoholism is a blessing, because it was a rude awakening that we were losing our way. We were losing our cultural identity. We were moving away from our medicine, our traditional ways, and that was an awakening that we were going down the wrong road.