Firewater

How Alcohol Is Killing My People (and Yours)

Harold R. Johnson (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

180 Seiten

2016
University of Regina Press (Verlag)
978-0-88977-437-7 (ISBN)

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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.

Harold R. Johnson has a law degree from Harvard University and is the author of six books, including the bestseller Firewater , which was shortlisted for the Governor General's Award for non-fiction. He lives in La Ronge, SK.

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

Erscheinungsdatum	29.04.2017
Verlagsort	Regina
Sprache	englisch
Maße	5 x 190 mm
Gewicht	214 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Psychologie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Sucht / Drogen
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-88977-437-4 / 0889774374
ISBN-13	978-0-88977-437-7 / 9780889774377
Zustand	Neuware