Alcohol problems in Native America : the untold story of resistance and recovery - "the truth about the lie"

Coyhis, Don L. (Author). White, William L., 1947- (Added Author). White Bison, Inc. (Added Author).

Record details

ISBN: 9781599752297
ISBN: 1599752298
Physical Description: print
k, 258 p. : ill., ports. ; 23 cm.
Publisher: Colorado Springs, Colo. : White Bison, Inc., c2006.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Before Columbus: ritualized and ceremonial drug use -- Early post-contact drinking patterns -- The rise of Native alcohol problems -- Firewater myths: ideas as weapons of colonization -- Native responses to alcohol and alcoholism: an overview -- The Delaware prophets -- Redemption and recovery: the Indian preachers -- Handsome Lake movement -- The prophets: American Indian prophets, Temperance Societies and the Indian Shaker Church -- Peyote, the Native American Church and recovery from alcoholism -- The Ghost Dance movements and the Sun Dance and Gourd Dance -- The 'Indianization' of Alcoholics Anonymous: culturally-congenial alcoholism treatment and the rise of community recovery movements -- The modern wellbriety movement: birth of the Wellbriety Movement -- The Wellbriety Movement comes of age -- Addiction, recovery and the processes of colonization and decolonization -- Appendix 1, The Jefferson-Handsome Lake letter -- Appendix 2, The good mind.