Part 2 reply to freeheels - I was trying to make the point that there are a lot of homeless natives in Anchorage because it is the only major city in the state with a high % of natives, and natives as a whole are disproportionately poor and thus more likely to be homeless.  Because you said "Can you please help explain the hundreds of folks who crown our sidewalks drunk and obnoxious - appearing largely to be Native Alaskans?"  I took that to be you asking in a rhetorical, sarcastic way, WHY there are so many drunk and homeless natives in Anchorage.  But I think I'm realizing now that you were really looking more for suggestions on HOW to improve that situation.  So you were kind of going off-topic, from my perspective (from banishment), but you were indeed sincere in your desire to fix this problem.   (last part, #3, coming up.  I suck at brevity)