Pagu 8, The Herald, Friday, November 9, 1977

Discovery of north
creating problems

By ALAN ANBUCKLE

CHURCHILL, Man. (CP)
_- Southern Canadians have
only recently discovered the
North, but are already
transplanting problems and
ideologies that divide people,
gays Omer Robidoux,

Roman Catholic bishop
responsible for the eastem
half of the Arctic.

Inuit families that were
scattered now live together
in a ‘dlage with radio,
television and amenities
they never dreamed
possible, he says. Along with
anew material life, they are
being bombarded with a host
of new ideas,

Robldoux says virtually all
of the approximalely 17,000
people within his area, three:
quarters of them Inuit, are
Christians, o religion readily
accepted by the natives.

But he is wary of
southerners making
assumptions sbout what la
best for the native way of

life.

“T think there is certainly
a strong movement coming
from outside trying to put
pressure on by saying that
religion ia part of their
culture and therefore they
have to go back to their old
religion if they want ta
maintain their culture. ...

“put that deesn't come
from them. it’s notable to _

realize how fast Christianily
was accepted by these
e.”"

Robidouwx said in an in-
terview he objects to a trend
among writers, historians
and journalists to be
destructive, When dealing
with the north, he says,

people need to pull together *

rather than seek out
criticiam that will mean
division.

“Maybe you can live with
it in the South in large
communities — in the North,
we can't afford it. Even in,
the South I don't think it's
constructive. But in the
North, as ‘far as we're
concerned, these people are
just starting to know oné
another. The Inuit are just
starting to get a little bit of
communication amongst
themselves and we come and
we form clans with these
divisions.”

Robidoux, who has 21
stations In the Arctic, some
served by lay families, says
the Inuit were a religious
people before the white man
came to the North. Their
relationship to God was one
of fear and Christianity
brought them liberation
from that.

“Phe Inult, as far as I’m
concerned, were very
Ymited Ln their beliefs due to
circumstances, If you live in

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99.8 per cent of your time is
for survival.”

Robidoux, born in
Manitoba, has worked with
natives before. In the 19408
he was a missionary in

‘Saskatchewan when Indians- ;

there had little experience
coping with white culture.
Before being made a bishop
and coming to Churchill in
1970, he was involved in na-
tive education in Winnipeg.
The racial tension
sometimes seen between
whites and Indians in
southern Canada is not
evident in the North, he says,
but it’s coming, —_
“There's a great
movement, again from the
South, of this famous word
autadetermination, where
you don't need any whites,
“But we bring that to
them.
“These people were 50
receptive to the whites, Any

of the Hudson Bay people or .

any of the missionaries who
came to the north, none of
them would have survived iE
they hadn't been well
received by these people.”

What aggressiveness there
is is being created by white
people, he says.

“It's coming. The South
only discovered the North 10
or 18 years ago, You're
working at it, you know,”

But Robidoux remains an
optimist, although a careful
ane.

“Tt (the coming of racism)
is a tragedy, but 1 think it's
also a transition.

“There are so many things
coming north and sa much
that came within a few
years. So 1 think we have to

e careful in making
judgments on all of these
questions. ...

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rally

The 100 Huntley Street
television show, seen
weekday mortings on
CFTK-TV, has been
broadcasting live from
Terrace for the last two
days, and will be on the
air Saturday morning
from, 9 a.m. to 12 noon.

Besides their television
programs, the 100
Huntley St. team has
organized two rallies for
their visitto the area. The
first one took place last
night in Kitimat, the
second goes tonight at the
RE.M. Lee Theatre in
Terrace. The rally starts
at 7:30 p.m.

The team which has
come to Terrace includes
Norma Jean Mainse,
Rev. Don Osbourne,
Father Bob McDougall,
Garry MecColeman and
Doug Burke.

‘Production staff
carried for the trip are
Director Howard
McIntee and B.C, Area
Director Dave Richter.

Film flap
in Terrace

Monty Python's
religious satire The Life
of Brian,” a film which
has been banned in
Valdosta, Georgia, has
also created controversy
in Terrace, even though it
hasn’t been shown here
yet.

A Superior Court
Judge, Roy Lilly, banned
the movie from the
screen in the south
Georgia town in response
to the demands of angry
church groups who said
the movie is obscene,
primarily because of its
“lewd exhibition of
genitals,’ according to
an Associated Press
story.

Theatre manager Andy
Baker said that the
church groups took the
.only legal means
available to get the film
banned. mS

“You can’t get a movie
banned for religious
reasons,” Baker said.

Terrace resident Bill
Homberg is already
mounting a campaign to
keep the film from being
shown in theatres in the
Terrace-Hitimat area,
_although managers of the
‘local’ theatres said that
the film has not yet been
scheduled for play here.

Homberg’s action, and
those of the group in
Valdosta, come after the
film had been criticized
by the Roman Catholic
archdiocese in New York
City, and several rab-
binical groups, as being
blasphemous and ‘a
crime against religion.”

Don Schaffer, a Herald
staff writer, comments
on the controversy on

page 4.

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VICTORIA (CP) — The
provinelal government will
share operating costs of a
new Vancouver residential
facility for out-of-town
patients who must atay close
to the B.C, Cancer Control
Agency, Health Minister Bob
McClelland sald Wednesday.
He said the government will
pay about $200,000 a year,
with the remainder being
paid by patients and a fund-
raising society.

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