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Firewater: How Alcohol Is Killing My People (and Yours)

By Harold R. Johnson

Book information

Publisher
University of Regina Press
Year
2016
ISBN
9780889774377, 9780889774384, 9780889774391
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
369 kB (377670 bytes)
Pages
179\0
Time added
2022-09-27 10:56:10
NonfictionSOC000000Sociology

Description

Drawing on his years of experience as a Crown Prosecutor in Treaty 6 territory, Harold Johnson challenges readers to change the story we tell ourselves about the drink that goes by many names─booze, hooch, spirits, sauce, and the evocative "firewater." Confronting the harmful stereotype of the "lazy, drunken Indian," and rejecting medical, social and psychological explanations of the roots of alcoholism, Johnson cries out for solutions, not diagnoses, and shows how alcoholism continues to kill so many. Provocative, irreverent, and keenly aware of the power of stories, Firewater calls for people to make decisions about their communities and their lives on their own terms.

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