Deadly Medicine: Indians and Alcohol in Early America.

Journal of Social History | December 22, 1996| | Copyright

Recently I had a brief conversation with a member of a local Indian tribe. When I asked how he was doing, he replied in almost depressed fashion, stating that he had been attending too many funerals on the reservation recently. Naturally, I inquired why. He said because of the ongoing, deadly drinking problem among tribal members.

This conversation jolted me, not only because of lives needlessly lost but because I was in the process of reading Peter C. Mancall's Deadly Medicine. This volume explores the colonial background of the debilitating and destructive problem of ...

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