By JIM POLING OTTAWA (CP) — Alex Akiwenzie, an Indian Roman Catholic altar bo until he was 19 years ald says he can be a nice guy or a bad guy. The attitude he adopts de- pends on whether white people “will wake up” and start caring about the concerns. of Indian people. “*T can be very opposite,” Akiwenzie, 28-year-old Canadian director of the American Indian Movement (AIM), said in an interview this week. “I can change from a nice guy toa bad guy because there's the hate in the heart.” , Indian ambassador wants. Queen to return their land GENEVA RUETER-The great grandson of a North American Chief who signed a treaty with represen- tatives of Queen Victoria 1$$ years ago giving England 50,000 square miles of land in Canada appealed to Queen Elizabeth on Thur- sday to honor the treaty or give the land back. Mack Chiniquay of the Stoney tribe told reporters covering an international conference on the plight of North American Indians that the Crown had neverrespected the treaty signed Sept. 22, 1877, at Blackfoot CROSSING, Albertam by his great- River in the north. In return, Queen Victoria promised to ensure the welfare of the Indians ‘‘as long as the sun shall shine, and the river flows, and the grass shall grow.” tribes. . Under its terms the tribes gave up their lands in south- west Canada, from the Rocky Mountain to the Cypress Hills and from the U.S. border to the Red Deer signed at Bickfoot Crossing on the Bow River, about 70, miles east of Calgary, by cheif Chiniquay for the Stoneys and by the cheifs of the SArcee, balckfoot, Peigan and the Bloods grandfather, Chief Chiniquay. Wearing a large silver medallion given tohis great- grandfather by Queen Victoria’s reprensentative, Governor Laird, CHINIQUAY CALLED ON THE Queen and the Canadian government to live up to the terms of the treaty of give the land back to the Indians. The medallion, bearing the insignia Victoria Regina, shows an Indian cheif shaking hands with a white man. The Sept. 22 treaty was Mayor urges Ottawa to fund municpal transport The UBCM convention By ROGER SMITH VERNON, B.C. (CP) — Local government representatives ran the gamut Thursday from dog tattooing tonational unity as second-day business at the Union of British Columbia Municipalities’ annual convention centre on recommendations to be made to the provincial gov- ernment. Delegates, _ representing 166 of the. province's - 168 local governments, dealt ; with 65 of the 109 resolutions before them, leaving only 24 to be considered before the three-day convention ends . today. Only about 250 delegates were left in the Vernon Recreation Complex when Thursday's session ad- journed. In the opening speech, Vancouver Mayor Jack Volrich urged the federal government to keep its commitment to help fund municipal public transport. “We simply request that the federal government adjust its priorities and stop wasting hundreds of millions ic dollars on superficial programs suc! as. LIP (Local Initiatives Project) and the like,’’ he — 1 said. Volrich,. speaking in his capacity as president of the Federation of Canadian Municipalities, called on the Canadian Transport Commission to make special concessions for air travel within Canada. Such a step would facilitate regiona! exchange, he said. CHANGES NEEDED Volrich said changes were -needed in Canada’s ‘“ereaky; outdated con- : stitution” to deal with both the needs of Quebec and with problems specific to other regions. “What is important is that we turn this crisis into a positive reassessment of our country and our living arrangement under a new constitution,’ he said. The convention passed both resolutions dealing with national unity, then ‘turned its attention to resolutions ranging from freedom of information to library board matters. All resolutions carried by the convention will be forwarded to the provincial government for con- sideration. . One of the resolutions assed indicated that lelegates were not entirely _ — - CLIFF BARROWS and the crusade choir * GEO. BEVERLY SHEA, Gospel singer * TEDD SMITH, pianist * JOHN INNES, organist * Tonight's special guests: JIM CARLEN, head football coach and athletic director, So. Carolina * KIM WICKES « NORMA ZIMMER. Subject: “BIBLICAL FOOLS”. a — convinced by Municipal Affairs Minister Hugh Curtis’ explanation Wed- nesday of the necessity of legislation giving him power to override local land-use decision. By a large majority, the convention voted to recommend that the provincial governmer delete the clause, section 28, of the Municipal Amend- ment Act, The convention also elected two more senior executives to join Williams Lake Mayor Jim Fraser and Trail Mayor Charles Lake, who were acclaime Wednesday as UBCM president and honorary treasurer. : Volrieh was re-elected as first vice-presiden defeating Vancouve alderman Harry Rankin, while Abbotsford Mayor George Ferguson was elected second vice- president. He defeated Co- quitlam Mayor Jim Tonn and Victoria alderman Bill Tindall. —_ Big Bite Americans eat more than a half billion pounds of peanut butter a year. 7:00 pm. CFTK-TV GH. 6 READ BILLY GRAHAM'S BOOK “HOW TO GE BORN AGAIN” AVAILABLE AT BOOK AND DEFT, STORES AIM leader Alex Akiwenzie ‘You have Indians killing themselves because they can Akiwenzie, who describes AIM as the Indian people's army, says that if there are not changes to better the lot of the native people, the 1974 IndianRCMP riot on Parliament Hill will be considered nothing com- pared with future actions. Several persons were injured and at least five Indians were charged with assaulting police in late August, 1974, when 200 In-. dian demonstrators and an RCMP riot squad fought on the Hill. Akiwenzie, an Ojibway from Cape Croker, Ont.,. said AIM people have a reputation for & mean, but they simply do not go looking for fights. NEGOTIATIONS NECESSARY Canadian AIM members still believe in negotiations to avoid “fighting other people, taking over uildings and picking up But, he adds, white people just don’t seem to care about Indian problems. “You have Indian people killing themselves because they cannot cope anymore. “But white people are cing to start caring if they on’t wake up soon.” Some of that applied also to Indians. Akiwenzie says there are native leaders working for themselves instead of their people and AIM “is prepared to deal with” these in ‘any way that is necessary.” “This means physically and politically,” Akiwenzie says in a news release an- nouncing a campaign against the Alberta Indian Association and ‘‘a few corrupt chiefs.” . AIM was founded nine years ago in the United States, seven years ago in Canada, and has been in- volved in several violent Gov't will. now: pay , full taxes VERNON, B.C. : (CP)- Municipal Affairs Minister ‘Hugh Curtis released figures Thursday to show how local governments will benefit from the provincial government’s decision to pay full property taxes on its improved properties. Stay at home and go places around British Columbia this weekend. B.C. Tel’s long distance weekend rates let you dial confrontations with U.S. and Canadian authorities since. Akiwenzie says that AIM is based on individuals to ensure that if authorities set “out to destroy one leader, they would not destroy the VULCAN ° VULC entire movement. ; . This meant that workin for AIM was a “lonely and - sad life,” travelling alone; working without pay an paying expenses W th small donations offered by in- th ae t cope anymore’ dividuals. “t's a hard life in the movement,” Akiwenzie says. ‘But I feel that if you are doing good then things will automatically come | OMINECA ENERGY TID Fe faucet! Alone walet par secon ing alms water a hon your way.” TRECTHORMER Engineered The Tree Farmer C8B skidder sets the © pace for engineered power. You can depend on it for big load, low cost productivity where the going is rough and you need power response with extra muscle. The C8B features 185 hp, 3 speed power shift transmission with a 40,000 pound line pull winch. Add front axle oscillation...high undercarriage clearance. . excellent - ‘visibility and you have what it takes “-*<" for rugged terrain. We're listening to loggers Call Ken Hoskins . PRINCE GEORGE, B.C. 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