Firewater : How Alcohol Is Killing My People (and Yours) / Harold R. Johnson. - Regina
: University of Regina Press, 2016. -
Wikipedia, 2022-02-10
Information trouvée : Harold R. Johnson (c. 1954 – February 9, 2022) was a Canadian indigenous lawyer and
writer, whose book Firewater: How Alcohol Is Killing My People (And Yours) was a shortlisted
nominee for the Governor General's Award for English-language non-fiction at the 2016
Governor General's Awards. The book, an examination of the problem with alcohol consumption
among Canadian First Nations, draws on Johnson's work as a Crown prosecutor in northern
Saskatchewan. He enlisted in the Royal Canadian Navy and worked as a logger, trapper
and miner before going to university as an adult, completing his education in law
with an MA at Harvard. He was a member of the Montreal Lake Cree Nation.