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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.

Indians of North America --- Alcoholism --- Drinking of alcoholic beverages --- Spiritual healing. --- Divine healing --- Faith-cure --- Faith healing --- Spiritual therapies --- Healing --- Miracles --- Alcohol consumption --- Alcohol drinking --- Alcohol use --- Alcoholic beverage consumption --- Consumption of alcoholic beverages --- Drinking problem --- Liquor problem --- Social drinking --- Alcoholic beverages --- Temperance --- Addiction to alcohol --- Alcohol abuse --- Alcohol intoxication --- Dipsomania --- Drunkenness --- Inebriety --- Intemperance --- Intoxication --- Jellinek's disease --- Substance abuse --- Controlled drinking --- Social aspects --- Treatment --- History. --- Religious aspects --- Intoxication, Alcohol --- Indigenous. --- Native. --- health. --- justice.