When Irene is removed from her First Nations family to live in a residential school

Beth Dooley arrived in Minnesota from her native New Jersey with preconceptions about the Midwestern food scene

"With its combination of reportage and historical context

and letters from missionaries

especially the rights of American Indians

Firewater: How Alcohol Is Killing My People (and Yours) traditional tales When Irene is removed fromA 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