White Man's Wicked Water: The Alcohol Trade and Prohibition in Indian Country, 1802-1892

by William E. Unrau

Book Overview

"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"