Kodiak Dude....you are right, prohibitionism hasn't work nation wide but it may deterred availability on the local level. But its a message AFN ignored. And if you criticized natives on it, you get called the racist.   But I have worked 27 years with DOC Alaska and most native inmates I ran into and there are quite a lot, committed their crimes under the influence. Since liquor is NOT part of the native culture of Alaska, why shouldn't organizations like AFN speak out strongly against it????