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

Johnson, Harold, 1957-2022 author.

EBook 2016

"In a passionate call to action, Harold Johnson, Cree trapper and Crown Prosecutor, examines alcohol--its history, its myths, and its devastating impact on his community. Confronting what he calls a crime against humanity--one in every two will die an alcohol-related death in northern communities--Johnson refuses to be silent any longer. Asserting that the "lazy, drunken Indian" story is a root cause of the alcohol problems, Johnson sets out to r...

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9780889774391
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Electronic reproduction. Toronto University of Regina Press 2016 Available via World Wide Web

Contents:

Part 1. Kayâs : a long time ago: Wîsahkicâhk's lost stories
Part 2. How alcohol is killing my people: So the story goes ; Who am I to speak? ; The drunken Indian story ; A little bit more history to help put it in perspective ; A time before alcohol killed our people ; Going to the graveyard ; The Royal Commission on Aboriginal peoples and the Supreme Court ; Four models ; The trickster in the story ; Being frank : exposing the problem ; Costs of the alcohol story ; Employment ; The story we tell ourselves ; The story kiciwamanawak tell themselves ; Addictions ; The land ; It's all only a story ; Banning alcohol ; Treatment ; Leadership ; The storyteller ; Healing ; Community ; The sober house and the sober community
Part 3. Letters from our scouts, the artists: A letter from Tracey Lindberg ; A letter from Richard Van Camp
Part 4. Niyâk : for the future: Wîsahkicâhk returns to find out he is story
Appendix: Treaty No. 6

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3160186

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