Treatment of Indigenous peoples -- Québec (Province), Cree -- Social conditions, Canada -- Race Relations, Treatment of Indigenous Peoples, Race Relations 

"Topics include aboriginal rights (fishing, hunting), education & residential schools, paternalism, Indian "status", etc. "... experience is limited to a corner of North-Western Quebec, inhabited by the Inland Cree people, mainly of the Mistassini and Waswanipi Bands... associated with... the Company of Gentlemen Adventurers trading into Hudson's Bay; and the Anglican Church of Canada."--WorldCat.org. 

Contents:
Chapter I. Disqualifying the author --
Approaches --
"Western ways" --
Disqualifications --
The Apologia --
Chapter II. "Why don't you?" --
The question --
The Western approach --
The Indian approach: when you have no fish in your net --
Direct or indirect? --
"Why didn't you tell me?": "You didn't ask" --
Attitude: "Ours" --
to learn our ways: the foster home --
Attitude: "Theirs: but they're using our products! --
Mushrooms -"They" never ask us --
Chapter III. "Why don't you: --
live like us?" --
He or she? --
"Hardest damned people to help" --
Names --
Addresses --
"Please"; a theory --
"I don't know" --
The impenetrable defence --
Communication: the mocassin telegraph --
Indian time: waiting for the boat --
A touch of 'paternalism' and a bit of superstition --
Making arrangements --
Indian disorganization: "what have you done with my kids? --
"They're taking advantage of you" --
Indian organization: the feast, a Frenchman with some beer, the mini pow-wow --
Chapter IV. "Why don't you: --
develop, produce, do something with it?" --
Pet pictures and stock images --
my 'pet-picture' --
The quotation game --
They did produce, and how --
Wanted: a philosophy of nature --
Some theology --
The Western view --
"Wholeness" --
Second thoughts? --
The Spadina revolution --
Scripture and some more quotations --
Philosophy, psychology, futurology --
Contrast --
"You'll save half an hour": occidental efficiency versus oriental philosophy --
Non-verbal communication and socio-psychological parlour games --
Walter --
Chapter V. "Why don't you --
stand on your feet?" --
A paragraph of history --
The sin against which there is no forgiveness --
Original paternalism --
"Will you find out where my kids are?" --
"Ideologically foreign context" --
The ultimate weapon --
Getting someone to do your paper work --
"what do you want?" --
"Who speaks for whom?" --
"All that money we spend" --
Paternalism reconsidered --
When the lights went out all over Chapter VI. "Why don't you --
get ahead" --
Competition --
Education --
The residential school and its manifold sins, negligences and ignorances --
'Why don't you get ahead?" --
On the way to a solution --
The image --
"We don't win in court" --
A bad word: discrimination --
Comprehension: poor --
Language and education --
Chapter VII. "Why don't you --
move into civilization?" --
Fish and game: aboriginal rights in practice --
Why live there? --
The Bible says so! --
Homiletical excursus: in the wilderness --
The land --
Retour a la nature! --
Oh to live like an Indian? --
Back to the reserve --
Chapter VIII. The comfortable Canadian hypocrisy --
Racial problems --
The boycott bee --
Aboriginal rights: how much is it going to cost? --
The national hero --
An indulgence in idealism --
"Their way" --
Chapter IX. What can we do? --
The sermon --
Flexibility: local issues, local solution --
The image: again --
Indian status --
Education --
The land: "giving it back to the Indians?" --
Parks, fish and game, gamewardens --
Forestry --
Fur subsidies and toll roads --
Services --
Communications --
Mining and exploration --
Reservations with a difference --
Police --
Compensation and revenue sharing --
Chapter X. The church --
For you are all one in Christ Jesus --
Vanishing? --
The mission: northward --
The best communication system --
Bearer of civilization and 'people pollution' --
The mission: southward --
Speaking out --
Leadership --
Chapter XI. I wish you knew Suzanne.