CANADA P 5 TAG E P of Indian Affairs and Northern Development Ministere des Affaires et du Nord canadien Vol. Fourteen, No. Three Ottawa, Canada June, 1971 IA . 59' I > NATIONAL INDIAN BROTHERHOOD MEETS AT REGINA The Indian Association of Al- rights. David Ahenekew, President berta has chosen to "refrain from of the Federation of Saskatchewan active participation in the National Indians, told the news conference Indian Brotherhood, especially the that in principle, he fully agreed with activities of the National Committee the position taken by Alberta on Indian Rights and Treaties." The Indians. move developed after prolonged questioning by the I.A.A., of Na- The Alberta decision drew strong tional Committee expenditures reaction from George Manuel, Presi- which Alberta leader Harold Car- dent of the N. I. B. and from the dinal termed unjustifiable, during Union of British Columbia Indian debate at the July 14th to 16th gene- Chiefs. Manuel told the assembly ral assembly of the National Indian that "political parochialism of pro- Brotherhood held in Regina. Car- vincial members of the National In- dinal then led the Alberta delega- dian Brotherhood is outweighing tion out of the meeting after voting concern for individual Indian's needs in the minority, against a resolution to know what his treaty rights are .. which gave the N.l.B. the mandate and . that political success in pro- to channel research funds from the vinces ought to be forgotten in fa- Privy C ouncil to the provincial or- vour of national concern for these ganizations. The Federation of Sas- rights." Mr. Manuel expressed katchewan Indians, hosts of the concern that there must be a coor- dination of effort at the national meeting, abstained from this par- Vine Deloria Jr., author, lawyer, Sioux: "It's not a matter of how discour- ticular vote. level to avoid duplication of costly research and that one Indian group aged you get about what your national organization is doing or how many Cardinal later told newsmen that ups and downs it has, you simply have to have a national organization where "the Indian Association of Alberta could not proceed on its own without affecting the stands taken by other you are facing a federal government as large as you are. So all those years is questioning its mandate in relation in the future when you get disgusted and tired, you come in and one poli- to changes in the National Indian organizations. Many of the treaty areas cover more than one province. tical group has control of it and it doesn't look like it is going to do this or Brotherhood. Since we have no di- do that, and there are complaints about it being not at the grass roots or rection from the chiefs we have no He reiterated that the provincial organizations were free to do their being too grass rootsey or too articulate or not articulate, stay with the choice but to refrain from active national organization and build it because you never know when you are participation." He went on to state own research. going to need it." - Deloria's words to the N .I. B. o . that at a later joint meeting with "We think that now the Depart- the Federation of Saskatchewan ment of Indian Affairs must be Indians, the question of whether the laughing, for once again Indians in N. I. B. should be a centralized or de- Canada are fighting amongst them- How the Whites .Tamed th e Wild West centralized organization; would be selves," followed the Union of Brit- discussed. · He stated emphatically ish Columbia Indian Chiefs in a later that the Alberta association was a press statement. "Mr. Cardinal, Hungry for fur s and land, the protest by Indians across the coun- decentralized organization. "The it must be remembered when the white men headed West. It didn't try. General Assembly decision to create National Indian Brotherhood was take long for these aggressive pio- With still photos, paintings . and neers to chop their way through the d h film a central approach makes the N a- in its weak formative stages, used wilderness the Indians called home. narrate quotes, t e attempted tional Indian Brotherhood compar- the Association when the feeling to depict the various tribes of the Within a few decades, the Hudson's Prairies and British Columbia. For able to the Dept. of Indian Affairs moved him, and constantly dictated Bay and Northwest Trading com- 15 or 20 minutes, the film paints a where all decisions are channelled to the executive and the assembly panies had dotted the pays. sauvage co condesending view . quaint b.ut through an Ottawa bureaucracy. with his amateur theatrics and With forts, filled .them with guns people. Bureaucracies are insensitive and threats of withdrawal .. now, like and pitted the tribes against o . dictatorial to people at the grass a small boy he has stated by his another for the profit of stockho . 'Dusky Indian maidens . could in London or Montreal. be bought for buttons d left level. A change from a white withdrawal that if you won't play heartbroken.· with a basta - son _brown bureaucracy 1s no my way, then I will take my ball The daring exploits of th se in- from one of those fearless plorers Cardinal charged. and bat and go home." The state- trepid explorers formed the bject or trappersso much honored ed by the Indian Association of Al- ment went on: "If every time a party matter for a CTY documecolony-lovingmentary European natiOns. will go directly to the Privy is in the disgrunted minority they film, The Taming of the Cana 1 . Years later, these Metis offspring, il for one million dollars for choose to walk out there is no as- West, recently rebroadcast on the brown" or "bois- :h into treaty and aboriginal (see page 6) national network despite a year of l ' . CAl. IA . 5 9 v• .> Page Two 1 /AN NEWS June, 1971 I IIIII IaI;)/I~/~l ~187II I II/~/ ~011l~l /ll /ll75294l l l/1~111 ~ Ill/ ~4 1b UN JEUNE MONTAGNAIS VA EN IRAN -=--" -~ C'est le jeune Roland Dominique, chance. Montagnais de Ia bande de Scheffer­ Roland est le fils d' Emond et de ville, qui a ete choisi pour repre­ ·Philomene Dominique, de la bande senter sa race au 2500e anniversaire de Schefferville (Quebec). Edmond, de Ia fondation de \'empire d'Iran, age de trente ans, est chauffeur de en octobre. Les quatre races du carnian de son metier, et Philomene monde seront representees par des est Ia fille de Mathieu Andre, chef gan;onnets qui auront 2500 jours a de Ia bande des Montagnais de Ia date de Ia ceremonie. lis sont Schefferville. Le couple a trois au­ done tous nes le meme jour, le 9 de­ tres enfants: un garc;on de trois ans, cembre 1964: il y en a un du Japon, et deux filles, Normande et Chantal, un autre de la Nigeria, et le troi­ agees respectivement de quatre et sieme est lranien. Un des parents de deux ans. Roland l'accompagnera en Iran. La bande de Schefferville compte L'imperatrice Farah Pahlav Shah­ environ 750 membres qui parlent banov a presente le jeune Roland au l'un des 51 dialectes algonquins. Le monde, lors d'un~ ceremonie tenue franc;ais est leur seconde langue. II a la Place des Nations de Terre des se trouve aussi a cet endroit des Hommes, a Montreal, le 23 juin. Au Nascapie et un groupe important Bien que l'avenir de Roland soit assure, son pere insiste pour lui enseigner cours de Ia presentation, elle a de­ d' Algonquins. son metier. (LA PRESSE) clare que Ia famille royale d'lran paierait \'education de Roland, au Roland parte franc;ais, mais pre­ Canada, tant au niveau elementaire fere sa propre langue. II termine LES INDIENS DE LA C.-B. que secondaire. S'il desire frequenter actuellement Ia maternelle. Ses PRESENTENT UN TOTEM A TOUS LES CANADIENS l'universite, ses etudes seront aussi institutrices, Mme Norma Cyr et payees par la famille royale. II aura Mlle Celine Houle, le considerent Pour souligner le centenaire de la de la societe canadienne, mais que, egalement Ia possibilite de visiter comme un enfant "calme, timide, Colombie-Britannique, un groupe pour bien les accueillir, cette so­ le pays des garc;ons qui partagent sa mais a \'esprit curieux." d'lndiens Kwakiutl de cette province ciete doit reconnaitre les valeurs sont venus a Ottawa, le 20 juillet inherentes a la culture des premiers dernier, afin de presenter un mat habitants du pays. totemique a la population cana­ dienne. Le gouvernement de Ia Co­ M. Wesley Black, secretaire de Ia lombie-Britannique avait confie a province de Colombie-Britannique, M . Henry Hunt, d'Alert Bay, le soin a profite de !'occasion pour remer­ de sculpter un totem rappelant le . cier publiquement le gouvernement centieme anniversaire de l'integra­ federal de son cadeau de $10 mil­ tion de Ia province au Canada. lions. De ce montant, $2\;2 millions Treize artistes indiens avaient ete seront affectes ala construction d'un ainsi charges par le gouvernement Musee de l'art des Indiens du Nord­ de sculpter des totems destines a Ouest, lequel sera erige sur le ter­ etre presentes, le 20 juillet, a cha­ rain de l'universite de Ia Colombie­ cune des provinces et aux Territoires Britannique a Vancouver. Le nou­ du Nord-Ouest. veau musee abritera une collection d'oeuvres artistiques des lndiens Dans une breve ceremonie qui du Nord-Ouest, collection qui est s'est deroulee au pare de la Con­ consideree comme l'une des plus federation, a Ottawa, !'honorable belles du continent.