Firewater : how alcohol is killing my people (and yours) / Harold R. Johnson.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780889774377 (pbk.) :
- Physical Description: xiv, 180 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm
- Publisher: Regina, Saskatchewan : University of Regina Press, [2016]
- Copyright: ©2016
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | 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. |
Additional Physical Form available Note: | Issued also in electronic format. |
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Legislative Library, Vaughan Street | E 78 .C2 Joh (Text) | 36970100007923 | General Collection | Volume hold | Available | - |
- PW Annex Reviews : Publishers Weekly Annex Reviews
Writing to his Saskatchewan Woodland Cree community, Johnson (
Copyright 2017 Publisher Weekly Annex.Two Families ) pointedly confronts the toll taken by alcohol and its spin-off effects, a vicious cycle of despair, illness, violence, trauma, injuries, and alarmingly high death rates that marks a seemingly dead-end narrative. But this 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 elementsâborders, corporations, governments, raceâare 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. He envisions connectedness to the land and whole communities serving as treatment centers, seeing this solution as preferable to ones that, in foregrounding victimhood, ultimately prove self-defeating and disempowering. 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. Two letters from individuals who've overcome the cycle of despair powerfully accentuate his well-argued case.(Oct.)