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

by Harold Johnson
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Book cover type: Paperback
  • ISBN13: 9780889774377
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: University of Regina Press
  • Publisher Imprint: University of Regina Press
  • Publication Date:
  • Pages: 180
  • Original Price: USD 14.95
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 182 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Disease & Health Issues, Native American Studies, and General

A passionate call to action, Firewater examines alcohol─its history, the myths surrounding it, and its devasting 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.

Johnson, Harold: - Harold Johnson worked as a miner and logger across northern and western Canada, before quitting the mines to pursue a bachelor's degree in law from the University of Saskatchewan and a Master of Law degree from Harvard University. He now works as a Crown Prosecutor in La Ronge, Saskatchewan. He lives with his wife Joan at the northern end of Montreal Lake, where they continue the traditions of trapping and commercial fishing common to Johnson's Cree background. He is the author of Corvus, a novel.

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