Tribe sees in to the path of
The software talked about the man with eyes like an owl, one of the dead.
Francis Martin in front of the White House and the cross of granite gray and black markers Sepulchre.
Here, the remains of the Passamaquoddy men, women and children among the other yellow dandelions on a hill overlooking a cemetery royal blue bay.
Many of those buried here from death, which abuse of life. Your eyes in the sunlight, Francis said that the number of fatal alcohol - a poison, suffering from Point Pleasant, 700 members of these strains for decades.
Here”, an uncle died of cancer and alcoholism,’’says Francis, a black stone. It”is a suicide. Another alcoholic.
Over there”, cirrhosis of the liver,”, he says, gestures in another headstone. Diese”ein, killed in a drunken dispute.”
It agrees to a number of tombs, reading the names carved on stones. Francis tells the stories behind dark almost every third tomb.
”What cirrhosis of the liver. Drunk car accident. Suicide. Teenager killed himself while drinking. There cirrhosis.”
Francis falls silent. In his heart, he knows that many times, he deceived the death and the cemetery. Nine years sober, he is one containing alcohol in a community Inondé of alcohol.
”I am not afraid to say that I am a Passamaquoddy, I am an alcoholic and my mother is 100 percent, alcoholism,’’said Francis, he worked as a consultant on drug abuse at the time of the reservation’s health clinic. ”The old told me, it’s time for a conversation about our problem and bring you the message, and not hesitate. There is too much silence in danger.”
In a community where unemployment is about 50 per cent and the dropout rate is high sometimes higher than 33 per cent alcohol was an ointment eiternde the wounds of depression, poverty and low self-esteem
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