[Item #5241] For Every North American Indian who Begins to Disappear, I Also Begin to Disappear. John A. Mackenzie, Wilfred Pelletier, D. G. Poole, Robert K. Thomas, Farrell C. Toombs.
For Every North American Indian who Begins to Disappear, I Also Begin to Disappear
For Every North American Indian who Begins to Disappear, I Also Begin to Disappear
For Every North American Indian who Begins to Disappear, I Also Begin to Disappear
For Every North American Indian who Begins to Disappear, I Also Begin to Disappear

For Every North American Indian who Begins to Disappear, I Also Begin to Disappear

Manitoba, CAN: Neewin Publishing Company, 1971. First Printing. Softcover. "This book contains a collection of essays concerned with the problem of human relations between the Red and White peoples on this continent....Most of the essays are written by people who, in their professions and through the Nishnawbe Institute in Toronto, have been working together over the past years, in trying to bridge the cultural conditioning which makes it so difficult for the two peoples to communicate in a meaningful way. All of the essays were written as a result of these years of sometimes frustrating experience, stemming from each man's deep, personal involvement in the dynamic process of inter-personal and inter-cultural understanding." While published way back in 1971 -- at a time in which racial tensions & related social strife was far more enunciated (& far more ham-fistedly dealt with) than said relations are today (esp. between Native Americans & others of a somewhat paler hue) - this book is ripe to have "its moment" in the modern present. I invite all those of leftward literary-political leanings interested not merely in the larger Native American story, but of the way in which contemporary political discourse and action can provide for a redress of grievances, still today to snatch up this book. This is just waiting to be discovered by the professoriate & the adjacent nebulae of "literary scholarship" that remains its happy neighbor. As the above-quoted portion of the short introduction-preface relays--and, better yet, as its subtitle enumerates--this treasure chest of postmodern sociology doubles as "a collection of essays concerned with the quality of human relations between the red and white peoples of this continent." The work is informally co-authored by a council of five separate activist-thinkers; each author stands alone in having written the section credited to them, and did so in a manner devoid of assistance from others. However, the disparate voices speak to a "thematic centrality," -- and one understood, by each, to have risen to the level of "political necessity." Contributor list, in full, reads as follows: D.G. Poole ("The Primitive"); Wilfred Pelletier (the 'title-track',
"For every North American Indian..."); Farrell C. Toombs ("The Indian in Canada: a Query on Dependence"); Toombs again ("Desultory Reflections on a Popular Problem"); Pelletier again ("Traditional Concepts of Organization"); Robert K. Thomas ("The Role of the Church in Indian Adjustment"); Thomas with John A. Mackenzie ("Survey Report to the Anglican Church on the Northwest Territories"); Mackenzie again, this time as sole author ("On the Demonic Nature of Institutions"); D.G. Poole (w/"The Civilian" as Poole's final "bookending" contribution to the testamentary tome here offered. Book in very fine condition with only slight shelf-wear, faint nicks & bumping to fine-edges & corners of front, back covers; a few low-impact exhibits of hyper-light rubbing to select localities on front, back covers of same. Very Fine. [Item #5241]

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