Firewater : how alcohol is killing my people (and yours)
Record details
- ISBN: 9780889774391 (html)
- ISBN: 9780889774384 (pdf)
- ISBN: 9780889774377 (pbk.) :
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Physical Description:
xiv, 180 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm
print - 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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Topic Heading: | First Nations Collection Festival of the Written Arts 2021 > Sechelt (B.C) |
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Vanderhoof Public Library | 362.292 JOH (Text) | 35193000321853 | Adult Non-Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |