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Notes: "[B]y Hugo Muller".; "Copyright August 8, 1974. Hugo Muller, 38 Frederic Hebert (P.O. Box 326), Noranda, Quebec". -- inside front cover.; "Cover Design By: Dian Watton". -- inside front cover.; Includes bibliographical references.; "There are many ways in which you can come to the corner of North-Western Quebec which has opened up during the last quarter century .... There is yet another way of coming into that country: the way I came -- as a priest, to minister to both the people in the new towns and the people who were there already, before the towns. .... This volume, then, is not really a study of Indian people. It has been observed, particularly in Indian circles, that everybody is always studying the Indian, they may, in fact, well be the most studied people in the world, and there are few signs of this trend slackening off to any perceptible degree. What follows, then, is more of a study of 'western' attitudes, if I may put it that way, and not really a 'study' but rather a look, a few questions and ideas which came to me through a number of incidents which made me think". -- p. 1, 3.; Contents: Dedication -- Disqualifying the Author -- "Why don't you ?" -- "Why don't you: Live like us ?" -- "Why don't you: develop, produce DO something with it ?" -- Why don't you: stand on your own feet ?" -- Why don't you: get ahead ?" -- "Why don't you: Move into civilization ?" -- The Comfortable Canadian Hypocrisy -- What Can We Do ? -- The Church -- I Wish You Knew Suzanne -- A Few Suggestions for Reading.; Author is a priest of the Anglican Church of Canada. Chapter one includes biographical information about the author.; OTCH has 2 copies. Copy one, formerly the property of Beryl Morris, has several annotations and underlinings in ink but also the only one of the two copies that includes Copyright and Cover Design info on inside front cover. Copy two appears identical (sold by Anglican Book Centre for $3.50 in March 1976) but without copyright and other information. Copy two may be second printing.

Subjects: Cree - Quebec (Province); Indigenous peoples - Quebec (Province); Indigenous peoples - Canada - Anglican Church of Canada; Indigenous peoples - Canada - Cultural assimilation; Indigenous peoples - Canada - Social conditions; Canada - Race relations

Call Number: E 78 C2 M7 1974

Copies: 2 copies

Location: General Synod Archives

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Why don't you ? : a look at attitudes towards Indians

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