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_7 MONDAY, APHIL 26, 1971.

Terrace

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Kayce White -- Editor

OUR OPINION

The ‘hooked generation’

In Premier Bennett's words this is
2 “hooked generation” and that part of
the cause can be attributed to ad-
vertising and to things the older
generation became used to. “But just
because we bécame used to them
doesn’t make them good.’’

While the Premier was not
referring to the political party to which
he belongs the words he used can be
turned against his Social Credit
government with a dexterous twist of
the sword he was using to support his
ban on liquor and tobacco advertising.

He said last week the earlier an-
nounced ban was prompted by the need
for a government educational program
telling the dangers of drugs, alcohol
and tobacco.

Had the Premier announced a
complete ban on the sale of all
alcoholic beverages and ali tobacco
products inside the B.C. borders and
set out punishments for contravention
of the law, similar to the codes
governing illegal drug usage or
‘distribution, his comments would have
been more understandable. As it now
stands what he is saying in effect is
that advertising is bad, unless of
course it is written and placed by his
government. He and Social Credit will
save everyone from themselves, he
infers.

Will his next step be to ban the
advertising of opposing political
parties which threaten the well being
of the party he represents? How will he
define the differences between mental
deterioration brought about by a
controlled overdose of one kind of
political philosphy and mental

deterioration brought about by drugs,

liquor Grtébacco? = =

. Social Credit, in moderation, is no
worse than alcoholic beverage con-
sumption in moderation. Extremes of
either are undesirable,

Had the government of Premier
Bennett supported its ban on alcoholic
beverage advertising on sound and
supportable facts pertaining to health

there would have beeri ammunition to
support the ruling but no statements
along this line have been made. There
may have been motivation for the
legislation by quoting the medically
supportable figure that five to seven
per cent of all who consume alcoholic
beverages over-imbibe, but then if
such a small percentage is to dictate
the banit would appear unjustifiable to
deny the remainder — the ninety-three
to ninety-five per cent — the privilege
of deciding whether or not to be per-
suaded by the advertisers’ messages.

British Columbia is the only
political subdivision in the non-
communist world, of which we are
aware, which will not permit a political
public opinion poll to be taken once a
provincial election has been called.
After Sept. 1 it will be the only political
subdivision in the non-communist
world, of which we are.aware, which
will not permit publications containing
liquor advertising to be offered for sale
an newstands.

The ban will effect such women’s
magazines as Cosmopolitan, Family
Circle, Women’s Day and the Ladies
Home Journal; such men’s magazines
as Playboy and Hockey News and such
family publications as TV Guide,
MacLeans and Reader’s Digest. The
Star Weekly and other newspaper
weekend supplements would also be
denied entry under the ruling.

As we said in an earlier comment
concerning the ban on advertising of
alcoholic beverages and tobacco, there.
will be those who will attack our op-

..; position.to the move on the grounds of
“tugelintetest: ce

Who elsé ‘is there to stand ‘and
fight? Where were the Members of the
Legislative Assembly when the _ Bill
was introduced? Why did they meekly
— with one or two exceptions — remain |
silent? Why was there not a probing by
the Opposition members until they
were satisfied the Bill was needed and
just?

Yes, it’s the “hooked generation’.

MOVING UP /

In my view: Nadine Asante

“Mummy, can I please take
off my pollution mask?
hurting my head.’’

“No dear , it's not bed-time
yet and you know what the
warnings say. It's not safe to
breathe without the mask
unless we are lying down. We
use too much air with the
mask off when we're moving
around.”

“What was it like before the
suits and masks mummy?"
“Oh, I guess we parents
always think the old days were
best but it really was more
exciting when we could see
what people looked like, the.
color of their hair and eyes
and when they smiled." But a
lot of things were different in

the ald days.”

“Tell me about those things.

mummy, what was ‘it like
when you were a little girl?”
“Oh darling it is so hard to
explain about the way things
used to be because I hardly
remember some things.
myself. My mother told me 1
saw birds and trees and green
prass but I can't remember:
them. Sometimes I think I
remember seeing a bird but
the bird in my memory. is
noisy and your granfy said
that birds made pretty high.
sounds." om
“Mummy please try to
remember. My” games
computer is so boring, Tell
‘me about what you used to
play.” a
“Alright-dear, clam ‘down,
your air tank is almost empty.
Conserve, conserve. — Sit
quietly beside me and I'll-tell
you some stories”. ‘Let me
think now. Well.. When I was a
little girl‘we didn't have an air
conservation problem 8: .we,
could, move quickly.

each end of a rope and turned

it over.” The-other children ® °

jumped. into the turning rope
and recited verses until they |
‘stepped on the rope, ‘ ‘Then it

s net ¢ 's din
was the next. child's timn.’?.” ‘Ym afraid.” *

That’ sourids | like ~ fon

—

Its

- eyes,”

One”.
game’ we played was called :
‘skipping’. Two children hel, :

mummy. Now tell me the
Story about swimming in the
water,”’

“I've told you so many
times. We took a parcel of
food called sandwiches -
nothing like the concentrated

“squares we eat now - and we

sat in the sand at the edge of
the water.” . ;
“Where it’s all black and
sticky now mummy?” |
“Yes. We'd sit there in the
sun and our skin would get all
golden brown from the warm
sunshine. : That -was just
before we all had to wear
radiation protection suils
during the day. And we would

get warm and the sand would |
sift between our [oes all solt..
and lickly and then we would - ,
‘run down tothe water and dive |

‘in and splash and have fun.”

“And the water wasn't all
thitk and smelly?”

“Well it was just starting to

get that way at the edge of the
sand but ‘we could still have
fun." ae

_ “Now tell me aboul colors
mummy. You said the sky
was blue when. you were a
little girl. Was it really and

” truly? Could you look up in the
air and see blue sky up high .

high high?. Why have’ you got

-“Have I? Yes T did see
really blue sky when I was

your age. It wasn’t all. dark .

tears in your eyes mummy?" .

and hazy and dusty with: dirt .

clouds'all the time the way it is”

now.. And instead of the sun
-being a round football it. wag

‘So dazzling we couldn't Jook at

it’ at all

“Mummy don't feel sad.

Maybe the radiation will go

away... Won't “the kids
sometime be able to run and
jump and play again the way

you did? Wor’t' we: ever be..
*. able: to’ ‘take ‘our ‘sults and --
~ masks off outside?" Won't we:
"mum ,

my? oo
“]Y don't. think so dearest.

- We-can’t go backwards. .
Those things:are gone forever ©

without hurting our

‘ the mountains.

“How come thepeople in the
old days didn't Stop it
happening mummuy?’ Didn't
they know what was going to
happen? Couldn't granny and
frandiather have done
something? Couldn’t you and
daddy stop this happening to
the world?”

“We dried dear, And your
granny and grandfather tried.
A lot of people tried very hard
but most of the people didn't
care. They thought if they
didn’t think about it, it
wouldn't happen. They didn’t
listen, And then it was too lata.
to listen.”

“IT can remeber how afraid I
was when we ran frora the
tidal wave. It was about 1971.
People called ‘Americans’
exploded a huge bomb under
the ocean at a place called
Amchitka Island. - Everyone
thought .it was safe because
these people said it was safe
but of course we know now
that it wasn’t. All the fish for
miles around died and the
islands sank into the ocean
and the Wave drowned
everyone on the ocean side of
Granny and
her husband.wanted to say, ‘I

fold. you so' but ‘it wouldn't

“have done any good..' About

two years later-after the

- -Wave-was when the first oil

_ ‘that black stuff at the edge of.
thestill water -if you could dig:

tanker sank and the beaches
began turning black. Even the
‘Wave didn't stop the men who .

wanted the, most-power and -.

the most money. Under all,

through the skeletons ‘of birds.
and fish - there is still gard

~ But it's useless. ‘Behind the
’. clouds. of radiation shines a ~:

‘bright sun. . But. it's useless." :

' sure. your..radiation. detector:

ate

“Why are “you” crying Ba

‘mummy? 0: 6.

“No-reason that you would —
understand darling. - Walk
along-off to bed now and make: *

(The following report on “Indian

Education” at Terrace'’s Skeena -

Junior Secondary School, written by
school principal BD, Cunningham,
appeared In- the March, 1971
newsletter of Indian Education
Resources Centre, University of
B.C.) .
‘ By D, CUNNINGHAM
Principal,
Skeena Jr.-Secondary
School, Terrace
What has been referred to as
a project in Indian Education
is simply a sincere interest on
the part Of the staff of Skeena
School to look realistically at
some of the problems facing
Indian children in the Public
Schoo] system; children who
come from the remote isolated

“Indian villages of Iskut.Lake,.
Telegraph Creek, Port’Simp- . -

son, Kineolith, Greenville,
Canyon City, New Aiyansh,
Kitwaneoo], Kitwanga,
Kispiox, Kitseguelka and
Kitimat where they had lived
the 14 or 15 years of their life,
usually without having
travelled beyond their im-
mediate fishing or hunting
grounds, . _
_ These children come from
villages of perhaps 200 people
where they had attended
Indian Day schools. to
Terrace, approximately
12,0000 people, where they are
usually boarded in non-Indian
homes, They attend Skeena
Junior Secondary school, a
regular public school of 950
pupils. Obviously these
children are faced im-
mediately with a multitude of
adjustment problems, only
one of which is to find a place
in the public school, :
The Indian School Boarding
Program was started in

' Terrace in September, 1969,

Previously, pupils from the
above villages were sent
mostly te schools in the Lower
Mainland of B.C, or to Ed
monton, However, after
several years of marginal
success with the boarding

' program, the Department’ of
. Indian

Affairs ~ through
pressure from the Nishga
people primarily, decided to

_ board the students closer to
home, oe
: “The staff at Skeena School
were infermed in the Spring of
1969 that 50 Indian Boarding
students would be attending
the school in September; thus
we had an ‘opportunity to

| gather information about the

students, their villages and

- people, with a view toward
’ mutual understanding in the
. hope that the Indian students.

would be more successful at
Skeena School,

Through the Anglican priest.
in Greenville, 1 was invited to
the village for.a weekend
where I met Alvin McKay, a
Nishga Indian and principal of

the ‘Lakalzap: Indian Da

School in Greenville. - :

Mr. McKay. became a close
';. friend and invaluable advisor.
~. t0 ‘myself and the staff’ at
.? Skeena. School. A. ‘teacher |
- exchange ‘for -one week was

. arranged between Mr,-MecKay

and’ Mr, Dave Walker, ?a

* Skeena teacher and self-made
archaeologist: “cum. |. an-

most of Mr, McKay’s time was
peni- with. the- ‘cCunsellors,
" individual’ students — -Indian

oy ‘White; arid’ groups: of In.
 dlans or, Indians and. Whites"

- alarm {s turned on- before you... “elther-by himself or in a teanr

‘take your suit and mask off."!. *

"with the school- coubsellors,

Also’ he: spent; considerable .

oe
4

'. dians',. chief.

thropologist.. In’ the "school —

professional

_ Students:

time discussing problems of
Indian education with staff
members and made a
presentation complete with
slides depicting the life and
culture of his people. Outside
of school hours his time was
spent in T.V, interviews,
meeting various leaders in the
community, and attending
their meetings. To summarize
this exchange, the rea! value

- was in having a native Indian

educator and leader to provide
information and background
about the culture of his people,

Mr. MeKay felt, as did we,
that a firm foundation could
be established if a mutual

Underslanding, of the two |
“gultires cotiild be developed,

From the cutset we were
determined to allow the Indian
student to retain his identity
while at the same time gain a
meaningful education in our
school, ;

Since this initial contact
with the Indians we have
attempted to keep in constant
touch with the Nass villages
and have participated in many
of their activities. Some of the
activities, relating to the
Indian students who attend
Skeena School that we have
participated in since the fall of
1969 include: assisted: the
Terrace '. Community
Recreation. director in

preparing a brief to the First —

Citizens Fund for financial
support for a Youth Activities

worker to: co-ordinate the —

work Of the various com-
munity. activities as. they

pertain to Indian students;
Theboy’s counsellor spent one —

day in the Nass valley meeting
teachers and talking to Grade
Seven students at the Indian
Day Schools at New Aiyansh
and Greenville; The boy's

P.E. Instructor and his wife, «
the P.E. instructor at, the —

Senior schoo], spent a Friday,
Saturday and: Sunday in

Greenville. and organized a .

full weekend of activities for
all age groups in the eom-

munity: A teacher exchange |

for one week in the fall of 1970

was .arranged between the.

Skeena boy's counsellor and
the .Native Indian vice.
principal and counsellor of
Hazelton. Amalgamated
School, Gordon: Retd;' The
Skeena. Schoo] Band visited

Greenville and Aiyansh and ..

were billeted in Indian homes

Indian education at Skeena

Nishga Tribal Conference;
went Om an exciting ‘sea lion
hunting expedition with the
Indians from Greenville to the
mouth. of the Nass River;

‘visited Fishery Bay on the

Nass River, the temporary
living quarters during: the
oolichant processing period

and witnessed ‘Grease’ -

processing and sur-drying of
Oolichans; visited fish can-

neries along the mouth of the.
' Skeena River during the

summer; attended the In-
Service workshop on Indian.
Art and Culture of. the Nor-
thwesi Coast held at K’shan

Village, Hazelton; -and, set up:. -
local: Térrace Indian*Carver,: -...
BenBolton‘in the Art room for: :=
a month to: outline: the- fun-—

damentals. of Indian Art
through demonsirations of
actual carving in yellow cedar
and birch. ,

Future plans include: a trip

to New Aiyansh -and Green- -

ville to bring the schoo] on film
to the communities: _in-
stitution of a one week mini-

course “Exploring Indians of -"

the Past” on which regular
school classes. will be

programmed to spend one day

each at the site of the ancient
Indian village at Kitselas
Canyon on the Skeena River

approximately 12 miles east of -
Terrace; institute an.elective.
course for Grade 9.0r.10- or _
Northwest’ Coast Indian Art 1
- Now that these students and

for September, 1971; consider

offering the Nishga Language -

us either. the - Language
requirement. of. an. elective
course; --the’ Indian Dance
Group numbering some 50
members have accepted ‘an

invitation to perform - their

traditional. Indian . | In-

‘terpretative Tribal Dance in.

the school during an evening:
formation of an Indian;Senate
to work. with the Skeena
Students Council; holding an

“Indian Day" in the. late. -
Spring with Indian students —
hosting. non-Indians at: the’

school for an afternoon; a trip,

” to Haida Village on the Queen .
. Charlotte Islands; inviting.
. Grade 7 students from the

Nass Valley for an Orientation
Day ‘at Skeena‘ School; ‘ahd

“making representation to the .
' Department of Thdian Affairs .
.. for a- Home-Schiol -
_. Ordinytor for Terrace, .

Co.

inthespring of 1970.Aswellas - _

playing concerts band
members were taken on board

some Of the’ Indian fishing |

beats where they were givena
demonstration - of gillnetting
and -fishing, the Nishga In-

i. chief. .meang _ of
livlthood. 8)

-\ Space does not permit.’

details \of Our. many ‘other
activities but the following list
will indicate ‘s0me of them;

atlended a traditional Indian ’

Wedding Feast..in New
Aiyansh uniting in marriage &

boy from. ‘the. Valley” of the
_ Naga and-“a: girl from: the
: Valley of the Skeena; spoke to
the Council: af Indian Chiefs ~
t Of business and:
groups’ in.

and’a number
gro
Tefrace. in'-“Problems’ of

Education.’ facing’,

f

atlon Indjan’.
* Children”, participated inva’: *. ,
meeting: with.” the'|.Terrace- ‘
Boarding. Parents of Indian’ -..
ttended the Annual.

-eleared $3,000,

We recognize the Indian
students as an ethnic, group,
culturally very different from
us, but ‘certainly not as in-
ferior, second rate citizens.
We have been very fortunate
in having. the cooperation
from the Nass Valley and the
other areas our Indian
students come from. -It is only
through getting to known
Indian people and sharing in.
their life that one can fully

"appreciate them. Another real

value is that when the Indian |
people have the opportunity to

understand our system and ‘

_ feela sincerity.in what we are

‘attempting to do; then and

efforts.

THE SPECTAPR. .HAMICTON

“ only then canwe ask them'to::’
cooperate'-and sbpport our”

Whatever success we may”

have had at Skeena School is
attributable to a positive
attitude about Indians rather’
than any projects that we have
undertaken, | The Indian
_ students at this.school for the

-. Most part. are proud of their

rich ‘cultural ‘heritage. Some |
bewildered, apparently:
“backward and shy, self -

conscious’ students often.’

played truant to escape and
generally manifested hostile
feelings toward students and
teachers. Many of these same
students are now taking their
. Place in the schoo] and making
a major contribution to it,

teachers are’at the. point
where they were at the end of
Grade 7 in the Indian ‘villages

we. can continue . their
education. Furthermore, with
the leadership of these:
children in Grades 9 and 10, ©
(he tength of the adjustment .

, period for’ the Grade. eight
_ Pupils coming in- next fail .
should”. be considerably -
shorter. We have made some |

°

“progress! °

CENTENNIAL MEMO -- The:
turnip rush at Quesnel :-yielded,
_ 4s high profits io farmer |.
Charles Danielson-as the gold:
tush did to rary miner's in 1860.:.

To avoid scurvy from trail diets.

‘Miners flocked to his farm and:
‘pald 25 cent to $1 for a turnip. :
-His. vegetable patch that year’

. from frost, bite The Cariboo -_
. Sentinel reported: that: one

T.B. HUMPHREYS _
As a, downy-cheeked mid-
shipman in the India Service
in 1849 Thomas Basil Hum-

phreys knelt on one knee ‘in the |
Court of Dhuleep Singh, the -

- Lion of thé Punjab, and was

a

handed one of the world’s
most: fabulous gems. He had
‘been selected to receive on.
‘behalf of Queen Victoria the
gift of the Koh-j-nor diamond
and in later years loved to
recall the incident to wide
eyed youngsters gathered
around him in Victoria, |

‘He‘also told many stories of
his early years in British
Columbia, when by his own
account,‘as constable in the
Cariboo he weeded out nests of
thieves, bandits and mur _
gerers. Tall tales aside,
however, he also had a
reputation of being a man of
strong views who was not
afraid (0 express them. After
drifting into political life as
the member for Lillooet in
1868 he made himself ex-
tremely unpopular in Victoria
by telling a public meeting the
Legislative Council was ‘“‘an
Infamous, rotten, rascally
arrangement,”

When Humphreys.refused to
make a full and public apology
he was suspended but later
reinstated by popular petition.
He was :-member of. the
Legislative Council from 1868
to 1871 and after Con-

? federation: represented ..Vie- |
toria! \inv-the;: Legislative + |
-. Assembly~:fram: 1871-1882. -:

holding several cabinet posts « :
in the Walkem: and Beaven
governments;. .
Defeated: in the provincial
elections of 1982 and 1886 he
also. was tinsuccessful in

- Winning a seat in the House of

Commons. But in’ 1888 he was

~ reelected: to {he provincial

legislature for Comox. Two
years later he rétired from
politics... - . :

| Centennial

. approximately one. year ago,’

~~ Bitter cold:

os a ,
“briefs

- At St. Mary’s Mission near
New Westminster, tragedy:
‘struck when two priests. set
out to hunt a. pig which had
respassed on the Mission’s
“property; “Rev. Father
Lamure met his death by the.
accidental discharge of-a gun
in the hands of Brother Ryan,
They had started to chase the’
intruder when the hammer of

the ‘gun held by Brother ‘tyan

caught in a bush, discharging
the weapon and killing Father.
Lamurt who. was, ahead. The
shot entered the ‘calf of the
deceased, severing an artery,
and he died from loss of blood:
ERK oe
caused. some ...
Cariboo residents :to suffer.

- men had his hands frozen’ and

Yesuits, >

was taken to hospital. while
several others were frost |
bitten with less “serious