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

Firewater: How Alcohol Is Killing My People (and Yours)A passionate call to action, Firewater examines alcoholits 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 namesbooze, hooch, spirits, sauce, and the evocative "firewater." Confronting the harmful stereotype of the "lazy, drunken

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