WHEN FREEDOM IS LOST: THE DARK SIDE OF THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN GOVERNMENT AND THE FORT HOPE BAND Paul Driben and Robert S. Toronto, University of Toronto Press, c1983. 131pp, paper, $15.00 (cloth), $5.95 (paper). ISBN 0-8020-25064 (cloth), 0-8020-6526-0 (paper). Grades 11 and up. Reviewed by John Jepson. Volume 12 Number 3 1984 May Most people are aware that federal programs and policies do not seem to benefit our native peoples in the way intended. Also, most of us find the situation too remote and confusing to be bothered with. The authors of this book have now given anybody with the slightest interest in one of Canada's fundamental problems a means of beginning to understand its complexities. They have done this by focusing on the devastating impact of government projects on one group, the Fort Hope Band of the Ojibwa, in four northern Ontario communities over a seven-year period. Ah bureaucracies! One might well cry, and be correct. The main programs are shown to operate against each other to satisfy the different aims of each of the agencies examined. This has continued even after research proving these contradictions have been acknowledged. Over-hiring in one program contributes to work attitudes and the lack of efficiency that help destroy Band businesses such as recreation camps and co-operative stores. Government agencies control without being accountable. Business failures and social breakdown are always blamed upon the Indians. Social anarchy, apathy, hopelessness, and violence are among the inevitable results with young people trapped between their Ojibwa parents and the Ottawa government. Everyone is vulnerable to changes in policy and administration. The book is admirably laid out in chapters and sub-headed sections. There are also an index and an extensive bibliography. Statistics presented testify to the research involved, but perhaps best of all are the quotations from band members; this partial one says a great deal about their frustrations: ". . .that's all a lot of Indian people want, a chance to make something for themselves without always having to go to the government for help. But our dreams are always just dreams because of the government, and I think they always will be just dreams." Recommended. John Jepson, Highland J. H. S., North York, ON.