IN THE FALL 1972 ISSUE of Phylon, James S. Frideres develops the central thesis that various Canadian Provincial Governments are bringing about the death of the Hutterite He charges the Provincial Governments of Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba with having consciously and systematically attempted to destroy the social and cultural framework of that culture.1 As reasons for this alleged cultural genocide Frideres mentions hostilities which originated in the passivistic belief system of Hutterites, which during the Second World War led to the spawning of such Legislation as the Alberta Land Sales Prohibition Act superseded later by the Communal Property Act of the late 1940's. More recent hostilities against Hutterites, according to Frideres, center around economic issues. He mentions the alleged detrimental effect which Hutterite colonies are supposed to have on local communities, causing their economic and social decline. There is furthermore the belief, that the Hutterites would buy up all the agricultural land and drive all other farmers out.2 In analyzing how the death of the Hutterite culture is being brought about, Frideres first develops a set of religious and socio-cultural imperatives which are seen as crucial to the survival of the group. He mentions a highly internalized Protestant Ethic which in combination with certain religious beliefs compels Hutterites to remain tillers of the soil, to be subordinate to the group, to accept transiency as a way of life and to procreate without the intervention of artificial means.3 Further structural imperatives for survival are found in the division of labor and the differentation of status in Hutterite colonies which in combination with the natural increase of Hutterites makes successive splits of colonies necessary because the division of labor in combination with the status stratification limits the population size of any colony. Frideres asserts that the aforementioned Provincial Governments consciously manipulate these religious and structured imperatives of Hutterite existence with the intent of bringing about the demise of this culture. This he claims is done in three ways. First, freedom of movement and land acquisition is restricted and therefore Hutterites cannot settle close to each other to share expensive machinery. Consequently, each colony is forced to invest large sums of money in such equipment. Second, by delaying the decision to allow them to split, the internal problems that confront the individual members are exaggerated. Third,