White Man's Wicked Water: The Alcohol Trade and Prohibition in Indian Country, 1802-1892
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"The inordinate indulgence of Indians in spiritous liquors is one of the most deplorable consequences which has resulted from their intercourse with civilized man."--Governor Lewis Cass, Michigan Territory, 1827 "Often I have been compelled to ask myself, 'Who is the civilized and who is the savage?' Their principal vices are emphatically our vices. If they get drunk it is upon our whiskey. . . . [A]nd yet we claim to be 'civilized' and freely...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:070060779X
ISBN13:9780700607792
Release Date:June 1996
Publisher:University Press of Kansas
Length:192 Pages
Weight:1.15 lbs.
Dimensions:0.8" x 6.2" x 9.3"
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