Firewater

How Alcohol Is Killing My People (and Yours)

Häftad, Engelska, 2016

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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 alcohol 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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2016-09-23
Mått5 x 190 x 127 mm
Vikt214 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor180
FörlagUniversity of Regina Press
ISBN9780889774377
UtmärkelserShort-listed for Governor General's Award for Non-Fiction 2016

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Contents Map: Treaty 6 territory in Saskatchewan Preface Acknowledgements PART 1- Kayâs: A Long Time Ago Wìsahkicâhk's Lost Stories PART 2- How Alcohol Is Killing My People 1. So The Story Goes 2. Who Am I to Speak 3. The Drunken Indian Story 4. A Little Bit More History to Help Put It In Perspective 5. A Time before Alcohol Killed Our People 6. Going to the Graveyard 7. The Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples and the Supreme Court 8. Four Models 9. The Trickster in the Story 10. Being Frank: Exposing the Problem 11. Cost of the Alcohol Story 12. Employment 13. The Story We Tell Ourselves 14. The Story Kiciwamanawak Tell Themselves 15. Addictions 16. The Land 17. It's all Only a Story 18. Banning Alcohol 19. Treatment 20. Leadership 21. The Storyteller 22. Healing 23. Community 24. 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 Wìsahkicâhk Returns to Find Out He Is The Story Appendix: Treaty No. 6 NotesGlossary of Cree Words Sources and Further Reading Index About the Author

"[T]his Crown prosecutor, author, and former miner and logger, who has prematurely buried too many friends and relatives due to alcohol-related deaths, refuses to back away from the difficult challenge of addressing the root causes of alcoholism in First Nations communities. He convincingly argues that reality and all of its constituent elements--borders, corporations, governments, race--are ultimately defined by stories, and that an intentional effort to change the tales First Nations people tell about themselves would clear a path forward where addiction treatment and law enforcement models have failed... Written in the style of a kitchen-table conversation, Johnson's personal anecdotes and perceptive analysis are a call to return to a traditional culture of sobriety." -- Publishers Weekly