Governments weren’t strangers to the idea of prohibition, either. In the United States and Canada, white settlers introduced hard liquors like rum to Native communities, then blamed alcohol for disrupting these communities — though there were many other destructive aspects of their INTERACTIONS.

What does “other destructive aspects of their interactions” refer to? Drinking alcohol not only disrupted those communities, but also caused other harms?

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I think the "interactions" they`re talking about are the interactions between the white settlers and the native people.
I.e. introducing alcohol was bad for the native communities, but there were many other things the settlers did that disrupted them (but the other things were ignored and all the blame was put on alcohol.)
Some of the other things include taking children and putting them in abusive schools, forcing communities of their land and generally trying to erase their culture.

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