Alcohol Problems in Native America : The Untold Story of Resistance and Recovery - the Truth about the Lie

by Don L. Coyhis

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.
(from WorldCat)

258 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2006

Reviews

[hana]

I read this book for a my history report and it was very informative and helpful.