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Article Evaluation: Stereotypes of indigenous peoples of Canada and the United States

The article itself is well written and substantiated but I want to focus on the "substance abuse" section that is only three lines long. I hope to add a foundation of information in why the stereotype came about in terms of the Indian Health Services statistics. The information in this specific section thus far is very lacking and only scratches the surface of the substance abuse stereotype that prevails so heavily in mainstream portrayals of Native Americans.

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This stereotype became most prominent in the mid to late twentieth century when alcoholism became the number one cause of death according to the Indian Health Services, also known as the IHS. Reports from the mid 1980’s state that this was the time period when the IHS began to primarily target the treatment of alcoholism over its past treatments of infectious diseases.