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

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

  • Paperback
  • University of Regina Press (2016)
  • SKU: 9780889774377
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A passionate call to action, Firewater examines alcohol─its history, the myths surrounding it, and its devastating impact on Indigenous people. 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.

Firewater: How Alcohol Is Killing My People (and Yours) by Harold Johnson
Firewater: How Alcohol Is Killing My People (and Yours)
Harold R. Johnson
$14.95
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