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cvSo .i.A`-AO QUOTABLE QUOTE "There's no equal rights on reserves for men and women... We people on re- serves, the majority of us, think the men have total say." - Tsuu Tina councillor see page 8 - National Aboriginal I I 13 September 13 September 26, 1993 Canada's News Publication Volume No. $1.00 plus G.S.T, where applicable 'Heroic Inuit boy remembered Leah Paged wenty one years after her son sacrificing his life so that another could live, Mabel Kootook takes part of Yte unveiling of an Inukshuk commemorating n David's heroic deed. The 14- ear-old Inuit from Taloyoak helped save the life of pilot Martin Hartwell after they crashed In the High Arctic In November r To receive Windspeaker in your mailbox every two weeks, just Davis Inlet kids go to Sango Bay send your ' ,rder in the c .T. DAVIS INLET, Nfld. Many residents turn to al- "I know a lot of the kids here are afraid to go home. But that's cohol and solvent abuse as a After six months of addic- okay, becausefear is healthy. We wouldn't be doing our job if means of escape, she said. w tion counselling the Davis In- Sango Bay would offer greater 1500 to let children have gone home. they weren't afraid go home." access to clean drinking water EDMO A But not to Davis Inlet. and especially to the caribou The 17 youths, who were - Poundmaker's Lodge executive director Pat Shirt herds that help sustain the flown to the Poundmaker's Mushuau Innu's traditional NAME:- lodge in Alberta for intensive culture. solvent addiction therapy and munity, said Poundmaker's diction, said the Poundmaker's Native councellors have sexual abuse counselling, Lodge Adolescent Treatment Lodge executive director Pat also been treating adults in ADDiäE: r landed at the Inlet for a com- Centre director Ruth Morin. Shirt. the community itself, said munity home -coming Sept. 2. "Sango Bay will be a kind I know a lot of the kids Maggie Hodgson, executive But soon they will be mov- of treatment centre," she said. here are afraid to go home," he director of the Nechi Centre, ing to a wilderness camp at For the last two weeks, In- said. "But that's okay, because an addiction treatment cen- CITY/TC Sango Bay, 15 km away on the let residents have been work- fear is healthy. We wouldn't tre affiliated with mainland, where Innu leaders ing at Sango Bay erecting tents be doingourjob if they weren't Poundmaker's. Approxi- eventually want to relocate the to house the children and their afraid to go home." mately 60 people in the inlet POSTAL community. families, Davis Inlet Chief Davis Inlet's current island are now abstaining from al- Counsellors from Katie Rich said. While the date location, 330 km north of cohol and solvents. Poundmaker's said they did of the children's arrival to the Goose Bay, is in part responsi- But the centre's counsellors $10 charge on all not want the children to return camp is uncertain, they are ble for the dire problems fac- still have a big job ahead of Cheques immediately to the environ- scheduled to remain there ing the community of 500, said them, she said. Communities NSF ment from which they had with counsellors from Rich. The absense of wild like Davis Inlet that take big $40 for all subscriptions spent the last six months es- Poundmaker's for the next two game and clean drinking wa- steps in terms of sobriety often outside Canada caping. months. ter, and the prevalence of have relapses. The Sango Bay camp will Many of the children were chronic unemployment, bore- A complete recovery could Sept 13/93 J be the buffer that the children afraid to go back to the inlet's dom and despair makes life take as long as five years, PUeUCATIONYAIL "E018T"ATION ITI71 need to return to their corn- environment of abuse and ad- almost unbearable. Hodgson said. PAGE 2, SEPTEMBER 13 - SEPTEMBER 26, 1993, WINDSPEAKER News WHERE TO TURN Arts & Entertainment National groups react to comic R6, R7 By Dina O'Meara 30 Windspeaker article "Racist writen campaign to boycotte attitude is unacceptable. Business 10 Windspeaker Staff Writer remarks in comic ignite boycotte" Archie Comics. "I was taken aback that a to Aboriginal and human An executive assistant at cartoon like that would even Careers 10,11 rights groups across Canada Archie Publications in New be printed. I don't understand OTTAWA to garner support in protest- York said the story was only how they could not be aware Environment 7 ing the use of the word Native meant to be humorous, and the of the insult." Furor over a racist corn- by the Archie Comic maga- company offers their "sincer- The coalition will defi- 8,9 Feature ment in a widely- distributed zine. est apologies ". nitely respond to the story, she comic book has spread from a News 1,2,3,R1,R2 In an August release of But in a later interview said. boycotte in Alberta to outrage Jugheads Double Digest No. with CBC Radio, editor Victor Joining the rapidly grow- OurOpinion 4 in the nations capital. 19, comic book character Gorelick said the character ing ranks of groups respond- "We're appalled at the Reggie said he did not want to Reggie was talking about go- ing to the comic is the Cana- Sports R4, R5 John Wayne mentality in the "go Native" lest he sink "to the ing back to nature, not about dian Ethno -Cultural Council. comic," said Ron George, head depths of degradation and Natives. Gorelick also la- Director Anna Chiappa was Your Opinion 5 of the Native Council of dispair. A sniveling, snarling mented not being able to write disappointed that a supposed Canada in Ottawa. "It certainly animal. No hope. No pride. No anything these days without family comic was so insensi- shows the amount of work still sense of decency. ". Two youths offending someone. tive. ahead of us to erase this rac- from Kehewin Reserve in Al- For Lorna "I was disappointed. It Bl L< ism and raise sensitivity to berta Amber Dion, 13, and Schwartzentruber, executive seemed to be thoughtless, with Native issues." friend Karina Cardinal, 14, director of theAboriginal Rights no idea of what they were do- The NCC faxed Aug. The court battle over Bill the read the story and launched a Coalition in Ottawa, such an ing" C -31, the controversial amendment to the Indian Act designed to re- Band takes province to court instate Natives who lost their status, goes to By D.B. Smith Casino, would not comment The Bear Claw Casino has Sheppard and the casino's court this month. Sena- Windspeaker Staff Writer on the exact wording of the been at the centre of an on-go- American supplier were later tor Walter Twinn is chal- claim and details were not ing dispute between the White charged. available at the time of publi- Bear Band and the provincial Negotiation between the lenging the constitution- WHITE BEAR RESERVE, Sask. cation. government over the right of band, the Federation of Sas- ality of the 1985 law. But he said the band is Natives to manage their own katchewan Indian Nations and Windspeaker has a pre- A band in southwest Sas- not satisfied with the prov- gaming houses. the province continued until an view of the issues sur- katchewan is planning to take ince's handling of the casino The casino, which opened agreement was reached in early the province to court over the rounding this complex and the on- reserve gambling last February, was operated June to operate the casino in right to control gambling on issue. for only a few weeks before conjunction with a local exhibi- conflict. their reserve. On Aug. 23, the province an RCMP SWAT team tion association. See pages 8, 9. The White Bear Band filed extended the casino's temporary stormed the facility in a pre- The province has been a statement of claim against operating licence until early dawn raid. Casino staff were granting temporary operating NATIVE PAY1LLIOf?l the province of Saskatchewan October, but Pasap said that is detained while police confis- licences to the casino since last week challenging the ju- not Food enough. cated all of the gambling then. risdiction of on- reserve gam- for The Aboriginal pavilion 'We have to sit down with equipment, including slot A spokesman the Sas- bling. a government that we don't machines, roulette tables and katchewan Gaming Commis- at Vancouver's PNE is Ed Pasap, chairman of the think has any jurisdiction," he video lottery terminals. sion said the province is wait- an event anticipated by the board for the Bear Claw said. The band's chief Bernard ing on the suit. many West Coast Na- tives. But this year's ex- hibit turned out to be Protesters deny more hype that reality. shooting helicopter Inadequate Aboriginal SARNIA, Ont. naissance mission over Cana- But George said the aircraft right to the land, which was com- displays and a poor site dian Forces Base Ipperwash on was probably in the area to har- mandeered by the Department layout left visitors want- Natives occupying part of a Aug. 23 when it was picked out ass the squatters, who have been of Defense more than 50 years ing more. Canadian Forces training base of the sky with a spotlight from camping on the ba se 50 km north ago under the War Measures in southern Ontario said they the ground of since May 6.