Prohibition of Alcohol

Uses the drinking behaviour of the Naskapi Indians of Quebec to explore the premise that economic change causes an increase in interpersonal conflict.

State law and policy change provides for community to self-determine own regulation of alcohol by local vote.

Sociology Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Montana, 1976.

Statistics indicated deaths were higher in villages with no local alcohol restrictions.

Bad Man gives an account of the arrival of white men, acceptance of treaty by Bloods, and subsequent lease of land by Mormons.

Evidence given by Camoose Bottle, aged 71, including an account of the taking of Treaty #7 following a deterioration in Indian life after introduction of alcohol; allocation of lands to various tribes and later loss of part of the Blood Reserve.

Chris Bull Shields, age 73, describes the signing of Treaty #7, and the establishment of the boundaries of the Blood Reserve.

Book reviews of: Deadly Medicine: Indians and Alcohol in Early America by Peter C. Mancall; White Man's Wicked Water: The Alcohol Trade and Prohibition in Indian Country, 1802-1892 by William E. Unrau.

History Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Toronto, 1987.

Book review of: Firewater: The Impact of the Whisky Trade on the Blackfoot Nation by Hugh A. Dempsey.

Describes the experience of three Ontario First Nation communities that do not ban alcohol, but have developed policies to control liquor on-reserve.

General discussion of his life.

Discusses how Federal laws regulating and prohibiting drinking seemed to cause political and social problems within the tribes.

An interview that consists of general reminiscences about her life.

Describes the formulation, implementation and impact of a policy developed to govern the use of alcohol in recreational facilities and green spaces.

Chronicles the NWMP (RNWMP now RCMP) force's successes and failures in enforcing liquor laws.

Discusses a conflict between the Canadian Bill of Rights and section 94(b) of the Indian Act which prohibits being intoxicated off of a reserve.

Book reviews of: American Indian Literary Nationalism by Jace Weaver, Craig S. Womack, and Robert Warrior with foreword by Simon J.

Book review of: Sit Down and Drink Your Beer by Robert A. Campbell.