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The Politics of Sobriety in a

Native American Community

Erica Prussing

the university of arizona press

tucson

The University of Arizona Press

www.uapress.arizona.edu

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Prussing, Erica, 1968–

White man’s water : the politics of sobriety in a native American

community / Erica Prussing.

p. cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 978-0-8165-2943-8 (cloth : alk. paper)

1. Cheyenne Indians—Alcohol use—Montana—Northern Cheyenne

Indian Reservation. 2. Cheyenne Indians—Counseling of—Mon-

tana—Northern Cheyenne Indian Reservation. 3. Cheyenne Indians—

Rehabilitation—Montana—Northern Cheyenne Indian Reservation.

4. Northern Cheyenne Indian Reservation (Mont.)—Social conditions.

I. Title.

E99.C53P78 2011

362.292'860897353—dc22

2011007999

Publication of this book was made possible, in part, with a grant from

the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Manufactured in the United States of America on acid-free, archival-

quality paper containing a minimum of 30% post-consumer waste and

processed chlorine free.

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Figure 1, The Twelve Steps, is reprinted with permission of Alcoholics Anonymous

World Services, Inc. (AAWS). Permission to reprint the Twelve Steps does not

mean that AAWS has reviewed or approved the contents of this publication, or

that AAWS necessarily agrees with the views expressed herein. A.A. is a program

of recovery from alcoholism

only—use

of the Twelve Steps in connection with

programs and activities which are patterned after A.A., but which address other

problems, or in any other non–A.A. context, does not imply otherwise.