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

Product Description IThe 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 POften 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 deal out to them the epithet 'savage.'--The Reverend William H. Goode, reflecting on his early 19th-century sojourn in Indian Country/I
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