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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

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

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

Johnson, Harold

Paperback

Public HealthNative American HistoryAddiction & Recovery

Publisher Price: $14.95

ISBN10: 0889774374
ISBN13: 9780889774377
Publisher: University of Regina Press
Published: Sep 23 2016
Pages: 180
Weight: 0.40
Height: 0.40 Width: 5.00 Depth: 7.40
Language: English
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.

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