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A Distinct Society Says Senate Report by Dorothy Schreiber INSIDE THIS WEEK Native people a distinct society says senate report By Dorothy Schreiber A senate task force As they portray recommending Aboriginal Arctic legends, 10 people be recognized as twirling dancers and distinct societies under the . rummers mesmerize Meech Lake accord has algary crowds. See met with mixed reaction ..ge 13. from Aboriginal leaders. The task force also suggests Aboriginal and treaty rights and self -government be- come ongoing items on the agenda of constitutional conferences. The Native Council of Canada (NCC) says the GEORGES ERASMUS proposals are a "good step ...happy with findings forward" but fall short of creating rights for Aboriginal Windspeaker could not people. reach Erasmus for comment BLOWIN' IN THE WIND Chris McCormick, vice - but he's quoted in the president of the NCC, says Globe and Mail as saying: The strong southern wind threatened to blow away the feathers worn by these the council would prefer to "It's a further weapon that two at the Nakoda '88 powwow at Morley on Feb. 19, 20 and 21. Here, Tiffany have the first ministers Aboriginal people can use Lefthand (left), 5, and her cousin Roxanne Lefthand, hang on tight. conference process (FMC) in pressuring the provinces revived to deal with the and the federal govern- issue of Aboriginal rights ment." Local media less enthused rather than have the issue Chairman of the task treated "as just one item on force, Senator Gildas Lubicons attract foreign media a long agenda. I think the Molgat, says if Quebec is By Dorothy Schreiber Aboriginal people are owed recognized as a distinct more than that." society under the accord While the foreign media Tentative deal struck The NCC, along with the then how can Canada say may have opened the eyes three other major Aboriginal the Aboriginal people are of the world to the struggle LATE BULLETIN - At press time Windspeaker groups have been working not a distinct society? of the Lubicon band, the learned the federal and provincial government had toward reopening the FMC The task force made up home town press seemed agreed to grant the Lubicon band a 66 square km process which ended in of five liberal and three less enthusiastic about parcel of land. failure in 1987. conservative senators held bringing the Cree band's However, Bernard Ominayak was not part of the However, Georges hearings in Whitehorse, message to Canadians negotiations and will meet with Premier Getty on Erasmus, president of the Yellowknife and Igaluit to during the Olympic boycott, March 4 to discuss the tentative deal. Assembly of First Nations, deal with Native grievances says band advisor Fred The two governments are already discussing says he's happy with the with the accord. Lennarson. possibilities of housing and hospital development for recommendation to have The report made seven "We had far more the band on the allotted land for which the Indians Aboriginal people recog- recommendations in total, inquiries and interviews have waged a 48 -year fight. nized as distinct societies. some include: allowing the from the international The Lubicon chief was also to have met with territories the same right as media than from the officials of Daishowa, the giant Japanese forest Scotf Lawrence, 8, provinces to nominate Canadian media." products company set to harvest trees on the Cree of Slave Lake plays a senators and Supreme But the media wasn't band's traditional lands. cially -made Court judges, and giving the only way Windspeaker will provide coverage of the land to bring iniature violin and the territories the right to attention to the Lubicon claim next week. ually wins any decide their boundaries land claim, the Olympic dling contest he and provincehood without torch relay run was involvement of the fers. He's one of our protested by supporters in emotional, patriotic kinds In the past three weeks provinces. pecial achievers' every province. Lennarson of stuff." the Cree band in Little However, the three rofiled on pages 10 feels this represents "a fair Despite the lack of Buffalo has been visited by conservative members of` amount of education and attention by domestic two German documentary the task force have information (being given) media he says the boycott TV crews, one Swedish expressed a dissenting on an issue regarding a was a huge success in crew and another from voice and state in the small band." terms of educating people France. They have also report: "The members who But he expresses dis- about the Lubicon's been major articles written support the government appointment with the situation. in the German magazine, are in disagreement with coverage given to the "I don't see how anybody Stern, as well as Italian, any recommendations that Lubicon supporters during can deny that. - Austrian and French the accord be amended at the arrival of the torch in "They sought to inform publications and the this time." Edmonton. Demonstrators people around the world Washington Post is currently "They are taking the jeered the arrival of torch about their plight and "workingon a major piece." position that the governent runners and greeted Premier problems they face as a The Japanese, Swiss and and the 10 premiers take Getty with a chorus of result, of the way they've Dutch have also aired that you can't change the boo's. been treated 'y the Alberta special on the band. accord or it will all fall But the next day "there government and the oil Overall, Lennarson The people of Anzac apart," says Molgat. were news reports in companies." believes the Lubicon Indians ogged through the But Molgat says the Edmonton that 10,000 While the Olympics went were "spectacularily ush and ate a lot of accord needs to be changed, enthusiastic suporters on in Calgary a mini -media successful in educating lo to celebrate their "in particular, that the issue welcomed the flame. I think Olympics was taking place people about their plight of Native rights be included it was a kind of self - in Little Buffalo, 600 km and the.people responsible in the ongoing agenda." censorship related to from the host city. for their plight." PAGE 2. March 4, 1988, WINDSPEAKER National Bill C- 31er's caught in "bureaucratic nightmare" ByLesleyCrossingham resentatives appeared well as correct the injustices, "simply allowed the backlog for status." C -31 to those who it claims before the House of has not worked. of applications to pile up." Particularly hard hit are are supposed to benefit Bill C -31, an amendment Commons Standing "As a result, the lives of "It is not uncommon to the elderly who are often from the legislation." to the Indian Act, is Committee on Aboriginal thousands of families find a waiting period of over asked to find documents The association has "grossly flawed" and is Affairs, Feb. 23. across Canada are being two years for a decision on that no longer exist, or that researched the problems leaving the lives of thousands In a prepared statement thrown into turmoitas their a relatively straightforward may be more than a and has concluded that across Canada in a "turmoil" this week acting president, applications for status are application," says Gleason. century old. In other cases much of the discrimination says the Native Women's Jean Gleason, said the caught in a bureaucratic In addition to the long some people have been that Bill C -31 was supposed Association of Canada. legislation which was nightmare." delays Gleason charged forced to travel hundreds of to end has continued. The organization ad- supposed to remove sexual Gleason says the govern- that many people have miles or hire researchers "Until Bill C -31 is properly dressed the controversial and other forms of dis- ment bungled when it received "unrealistic" and lawyers. implemented, the federal amendment when rep- crimination from the act as underestimated the number demands for documentation "Essentially, the govern- government has merely of people who would be and then "providing little ment has left the respon- engaged in a paper ex- applying for status Friendship centres and has assistance to those applying sibility of implementing Bill ercise, "concludes Gleason. to meet in Ottawa OTTAWA -- Secretary of that the needs of disabled State David Crombie has Aboriginal persons are announced a $90,460 grant consistently addressed by to the National Association friendship centres and to of Friendship Centres sensitize the urban commu- (NAFC). This grant will nities to the needs of their assist the NAFC to host a disabled members. three -day national confer- "The National Association ence on issues affecting of Friendship Centres is Aboriginal disabled persons best suited to coordinate in Ottawa in March 29, 30 this conference because of and 31. the role friendship centres The NAFC represents play in the Aboriginal 99 friendship centres some community," said Crombie. across Canada which "Friendship centres to are provide services and always have been Aboriginal people and 'community centres for assists them to adjust to life Aboriginal people and this in communities. urban conference will lay the firm A preliminary meeting foundation for Aboriginal the Depart- I-- sponsored by disabled persons to voice ment "of the Secretary of their concerns and needs to State was held in Cornwall, the general public and the Ont. on Jan. 21 and 22, federal government," he 1988 to facilitate an added. awareness of the problems ROADSIDE ATTRACTION of Aboriginal disabled The funding for the Workers on the gas station /restaurant /grocery side of Highway 2, 45 km south of Edmonton, may persons and to discuss an conference comes from the store complex built by the Louis Bull band's open this spring.
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