Welfare Act allowed AI/AN tribes and AI/AN parents to determine where their children would go to school. Increased psychopathology, including alcohol/drug use and suicidal behavior has been associated with boarding school attendance, and children of boarding school attendees also have increased psychopathology.31 One study has found that among urban AI/AN individuals, boarding school attendance and foster care were predictors of AUD in male drinkers.33 However it should be noted that another study in 1,000 individuals from a large AI tribe found that individuals with AUD were no more likely to have attended boarding school than individuals without AUD.34
