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TERRACE HERALD, TERRACE, B.C,

‘over CBC radio October’ 19,

" LOUS' RIEL.,, makes it on opera

Scene above

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rigia Rideout as Itiel’s mother and Joseph

Roweau as Bishop Tache, -
features Bernard Turgeon as Riel. Pat- * |. : :

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m Forestry. men say:

Terrace Forestry officials re-

M port this years fire segson was

a soft touch compared to “other
years. <1:

No major fires” were dealt

with The largest of the season

ee was a fiftv-acreblazeatHermann

Lake in the Lakelse Valley during
m August, ||

fe In the same month, four ligh-

MS ining strikes. caused -brlef fire

action in, the Lakelse region but

‘Fire season ‘a soft touch’

crews sbon , had _blazes- ext-
inguished, ~ «. ~

There were 42 fires in the’
Terrace district with an estima-

ted loss fag of $45,000, “Heavy

rain -has kept ‘the woods fire

hazard at the low mark for sever |.

alweeks, ~

-The entire Prince Rupert dis-,

tric€ handled 495 fires during the
current season with a loss tig-
ure’ of $306,300;

Kamloops. District was hardest

to,
fe,

hit with a ‘total off, \al’ fires dt
a cost of $2,291,500, Nelson had
906 fires witha lossof $l, 717,200.
Prince George District had 456
fires . with losses . totalling
$642,700, —- ;

_ Vancouver District reported
495 fires up to October 6, at a
cost of $806,300.

“Total fires reported inthe pro-
vince up to October 6 were 3, 2i¢ .
at a cost of $6,707, 200,

Report from Parliament Hill

Consult Indians
about. Indian Act

toe, FRANK HOWARD, MP.

In 1959, ‘in 1960 and again in 1961 a Committee. at the Sen-
ate and Howse of Commons -met to consider Indian Affairs
and the changes which . _ might be necessary in ‘the Indian
Act. .

wondering about thé amendents: to the Indian Act,
We. have asked. ‘“pessistently in Parliament about any.

proposed’ -changes: amd always. have bedn given the-angwer, .|-
that. the goverfment,. or: the Indian Department, was studying ;

the indian Act and were preparing amendnente. ot

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fey’

- One “oe ihe ‘important ‘eninge. about the ‘Indian Act 15 that

it can govern almost: every Bingle: thing a persaf does in
ete

Those who dre. not. edvered by the Indian Act have their -

“ civil: ‘rights. legislated upon "by the) various’ provincial legis-'
“Yatures, but Indian, peqple,’, because the Parliament of Can-
ada has the exclusive legislative jurisdiction over them,
have to look “to the Indian Act’for the preservation of their
rights, freedoms and provileges, Tote)

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No wonder, then ‘that: ‘Natives ‘are’ 50 concerned with what ,

is contained in the Indian Act, . . .

Thera is not another group ‘of people fa ‘Canada who have’
such’a stake.in a single piece of legislation, And this is
all the mére reason Why: the ‘Indian pedple themselves,
” through. the . various- bands, ‘tribes, and” clang should be con-
sulted. .--

The Indian Act aihendrhents ‘are “coming” closer, Indian
Affairs. Minister Laing .said..on September 2lat that the
work of preparing the new Indian Act 4s fax advanced. -

-He said. something -more’ significant too.. He said that
the working papers, which will guide the legislative drafts-

; men had been discussed with the-National Indian Advisory

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-Council,. He sald further, and I quote his remarks:

“When the final review: ‘has been completed, the Act it-
self. will be prepared ‘and representatives of the Indian
- people will be consulted further.”

The important thing here is. that it is the Advisory Coun-
cil. which will be consulted further.

‘Advisory Counc. = - *

Now, as good as the’ ‘Advisory Council may be, it dees
not necessary reflect the feelings of the Indian people in
the various communities.

It has no funds to travel and consuft the people.

it has no way of speaking. with Indian people, except in the
immediate area surrounding the home of each member on
the Council,

-And more important than that, the Council has: had pre-

sented to It certain documents which have been classified
as confidential, All in all the proposal to consult merely
with the Advisory Council is too narrow a proposal.

> Sire jst. She’s already finished 2 big beautifil swash. |
» Automatically. And now. it’s drying. Automatically.

Meanwhile she’s waltzing. through washday. Troning? =
~ There won nt he much. of. that, either, Things cams: |

Ever" since that- time. our. ‘Native Indian, ‘people have been

Note that it is not the |
Indian Bands or Tribes that are-to be consulted, but the

PORK:

-SPARERIBS

vr Thick, meaty |
Govt. ‘inspected

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