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_ » TL wish to make a response to
E, Johnson's letter, July 25,
1990, -Last year, around this
time, Helen Duham wrote a let-
ter. expressing ‘her frustrations
on native claims. oo

“Now, you have well” —
- -groundedly stated your con-

‘cerns, Reading your letter, I get

'. the impression you expect us all

to drop our traditions and turn

. into apples. I’m quite happy to

“say that that would impossible.

‘Through thick and thin, our

culture: has always been and.

- forever. will be important to us.
4 Eyer since your forefathers
‘stripped our forefathers of their
culture: and ordered them to
"give. up. their ‘“‘savage’’ and
“heathen”? practices, we have
_ - Struggled to maintain our pride.
': In‘regards to working beside
‘you? Do you even notice how

Dear Sir:.. ;

+ This letter is in regards to the
Indian blockade of the highway
‘at Moricetown, and the notice
: being. handed out to motorists
“as they are stopped.

‘-T-would like to know who is
“responsible for the blockade
and for writing the-notice. The
notice reads from the office of
the . Gitksan-Wet'suweet’en
hereditary chiefs. Which
hereditary chiefs? I suppose it’s
‘for good reason that no names
are given. Who would want to

“take: responsiblity for such a’

-poorly written, pathetically
sickening piece of garbage the
| Indians are handing out to the

motorists as they are unwillingly

stopped on the highway? Take
the time to read the notice, but
take.a deep breath before you

- do and make sure your food has
been digested.

-" The author of the notice

errs

“the unjustifiable picture he has
-painted for the benefit of the
bleeding hearts out there.

‘-~ They do not pay sales tax, nor
income tax. So they don’t even
support themselves through

_,. taxes, We have to support them

eters or

Here forever

oo Dear Sir:

Jack Davis

Squatters

Dear. Sir:

Spokesmen for our native
people say that “‘first na-
=| tons’? own the province
‘D“lock, stock and barrel’,
~ Simply put; three per cent of
“B.C.'s population owns. 100
per cent of all the land and
-matural resources in B.C, .

_ The rest of us — 97 per
‘cent — are squatters. They
say we have squatters’ rights
‘and little else. We can rent or.
lease but never own plots of
land. or forest and -mineral
-wealth outright. ==
oo The key word in law is ‘ti.
fl tle’. Granting. . title means
* 2° [handing over ownership and’

*- [control completely. Give one

4 band | title to the land’ and’
{resources it claims and
‘you've established a prece-
dent for all others to follow,.

- [demands based on race or
-|.ethnic’ origin” uncons-
‘Pclonablee
o's Yours sincerely,
“Honourable:
‘Jack Davis, MLA, |
_ North Vancouver: °: ;

"aware —

“*Ridiculous...and °1 find’ |

Seymour -.-

many natives are graduating
and. how many -are intent ‘on
graduating? Are some of us in-
visible to you? It'd like you to
think about it. .

‘And plus, what is this you say
— we have chosen to live in

"your ‘society? Weren't natives

living in Canada first?
1 have included a little
something from “The Stoney

_ Creek Woman.’”

“Tt is good to live well like the
white people but we must hang
on to: what was good inthe ald
ways. We must keep our land so+
that, even in Canada, we can
Still feel that we have our own
country, ””
. = Mary John
It would be nice if some peo-
ple could get their claims
straight wouldn’t it?
Mary. Holland .
Terrace, B.C,

and ourselves,

We pay them to attend post-
secondary schools for up to
eight years. This includes tuj-
tion, books, supplies, school
fees, housing, food transporta-
tion and general living expenses.
We will do this for every one of
them for eight years, and they
don’t even have to graduate!

We provide special. training

- and opportunities for them to

find employment. We give them
preference in government posi-
tions over non-Indians.

The notice claims that the
goernment hauls away their
natural resources by truck and
rail, leaving. them with no
economic opportunity.
However, it doesn’t describe the
jeopardy the resources are in, in
the hands of the Indians. They
do not fish and hunt and log on-
ly enough to sustain their own
families. They devastate.

‘The notice doesn’t describe

“how thé Inidiaris speaf then

throw back hundreds of now in-
jured and dying fish every day
as they swim towards their
spawning grounds through the
Moricetown canyon. The notice
doesn’t say it is legal for an In-
dian to sell fish caught on a

This game playing must stop

Some natives are starting to
play games on us, They have
lots of laughs, giggles and fun.

Natives immigrated years ago
from Asia, scientists tell us, and
we immigrated mainly from
Europe. So what is the dif-
ference?

Nobody owns a country, only
God does and He wants us to
share it in brotherly love. Our
natives were successful so far in
their rebellion against the

land claims

:

rey

Hwy16 near Smithers several weeks a

port. It has since been removed,

An unjustified picture

resérve toa person, but it is il-
legal for that person to buy the
fish from the Indian.

These reasons are only some
that made me feel so ill after
reading the notice handed to me
the other day. They may not be
documented, but they are cer-
tainly not rumours, Many may
argue that we have to consider
the needs of the Indian society
to retain their heritage: This
may be a valid point, but it is
crystal clear that most Indians
couldn’t care less about their
cultural heritage.

But if they could play with

our emotions, wow, would it be -

a powerful excuse to get
everything for nothing, And
that is what they are doing. Life
today is just too good for them,
and it keeps getting better.

My message to the Indians is
smarten up and get into the
twentieth century with the rest
of the developed world, or else
go back to'living in teepees and
trapping on snowshoes. You
can't have the best of both
worlds. Nobody can; if you try,
you are going to cause a civil
war,

J. Bolster
Smithers, B.C.

governments we chose, and that
makes them smell more money
and encourages them to become
more bold and aggressive under
the leadership of their whité
Marnist friends who pretend to
sympathize with their cause, but
who are really just promoting
their own leftist agenda of
creating unrest, anarchy and in-
stability.

It is the fruit of years of red
propaganda by teachers in our

What's happening is

Dear Sir:

The public should be made
as many people
doubtless already are — that the

native land claims question is.

being exploited and or-
chestrated from a central source
by people with ulterior motives
that have little to do with the
merits of the claims themselves.

When our native peoples are
encouraged to believe that the
whites are their enemies, and

. White people are led to believe

that our native population has
become a threat to them, not:
only is a vicious falshood being

perpetrated, but one can see at

wark the age-old tactic of

"divide and conquer.” ;
“A small group of individuals ,

even though, they are in control

‘. of the money supply and the
- Mass media, cannot gain-con-

tral of a large population unless
they can also sow division and
‘ confusion among the populace. .
Unless we are careful,
therefor, and refuse to allow
‘Ourselves to be blinded by
smoke and mirrors, both white
and Indian alike may one day
discover that they are in, the
Same trap together. |

. These -same. tactics, with. :

variations, have ‘been used

_- Many times in the past — .
“always for the same purpose. -

‘and with. the same results,”

Those: who have become com’

rupted by the excessive wealth
or power they already possess
have fallen into the grip of a
lust, and seek to. gain more of
both by any means they can
devise.

The horrors’ of such
ideological monstrosities as
Naziism and Communism that
have cast a pall of darkness over
most of the 20th Century had
their birthplace in the corporate
boardrooms and counting
houses of western financial
centers {sce ‘‘Wall Street and
the Rise of Hitler’? and ‘‘Wall
Street and the Bolshevik
Revolution” by Anthony Sut-
ton.) -

But the actual founders of
these diabolical systems, and
their ideological successors, are
still alive and well,

. The public sould particularly
beware ‘Of the information pro-
vided’ by the‘ mass media in
those situations where passions
can become inflamed. What has
been ‘aptly ‘termed our own
Communist Broadesting Cor-
poration ~— sometimes referred
‘to as the CBC — frequently
‘Plays a clevet but deceptive role.

While: pretending smply to
Teport the news, in actual fact it
is often found ‘to be enlarging
and distorting ‘the events upon

format
f emotio;

i ‘be sufficient-

“which it purports to base its in-

THE LONGEST RUNNING native information blockade In the northwest went up at Moricetown on
go. Natives handed out pamphlets and asked motorists for sup-

TRUCKERS AND LOGGERS from Kitwanga responded with a

blockade of their own Aug. 3 on Hwy16 just west of the junction
with Hwy37. They distributed pamphlets to motorists, saying they
want the government to settie land claims, to be involved in the pro-
cess and to have freedom to move on highways.

regional colleges, financed by
naive ‘‘conservative’’ govern-
ments.

As far as I am concerned
there is nothing to claim. The
‘war between cowboys and In-
dians ended some 100 years ago.
If ‘they insist on getting all of
Canada back, we must cut them
off from any form of social
assistance, No more hospitals,
no more doctors, no more cars,
no more television, no more

diabolical

ly aroused by the controlled
media on the land claims issue
that bloodshed eventually
results, this will provide the
pretext desired by those in the
center of the web to expand
their call for fun registration
and confiscation.

With guns exclusively in the
hands of the police and the
military — both of which are
controlled by those in the center
of the web — as they were under
the Nazis, and still are under the
Communists, no effective
resistance from an unarmed
populace need be anticipated
against those who have or-
chesirated the entire affair.

At this point, nothing is to be
gained =-- and much could be
lost — by people attempting to
take the law into their own
hands, through obstructing the
highways or other means.

And it is a deceptive tactic to
pretend that only the natives
have a concern about the proper
use and preservation of our
forests and other natural
resources. :

This is an exploitation of
racism by.those who pretend to
oppose it, since both white and
Indian atike are to be found on
both sides of the logging and
conservation issues.

Yours sincerely,

Howard T. Ennis, Ir. |” s

Kisploxy Bir. .

good housing, no fridges and,
freezers, none of the white in-
vader’s advantages and in-
fluences.

Close the shopping malls to
them and rip up our paved

. roads they are using. Let them

go back to their jungle, which
they seem to prefer. Witchdoc-
tors and sweathouses will do.

Alright, give them some of
the land which they claim and
let them stay there forever, out
of sight. Let them stand on their
own feet, like we all have to do.
Leaning on nobody. Treating
them differently, just because
they are Indians, is blatant
discrimination of Canadians
who are white, black or yellow.

We work like beavers and
ants, have nothing to claim and
pay our high taxes. Where does
our money go? We all have to
fend for ourselves, Indians
should not be an exception.
Away with parasitism and
laziness, .

Thank God, most Indians do
not agree at all with the stupid
behaviour of these militant
“‘wartiors’’, but they are often
too embarrassed and timid to
speak up. People that are clos-
ing roads and bridges are a
nuisance and a pest. It seems
these welfare bums have
nothing else to'do and should be
put to forced labour. They
might learn what work is,

They are hurting badly the
good name of: other Indians,
people we love. Lét. peace be
restored. If not, it is certainly
going to cost: more precious
lives. We don’t want ‘“apar-
theid’’, co tego

There is only one true nation

here and it is call Canada, One
of the chiefs said, ‘‘Reserves are
nothing more than concentra-
tion camps”’. Join us, fit'in‘or
be gone.’ ns a

«Bil Homburg
Te 2 B.C... a

So de maa he ig a

~ Terrace Standard, Wednesday, “August 15, 1990 — Page A5:

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“TO THE TERRACE STANDARD

-. | published soonest. -

| Flying |
| fiasco |

Dear Sir: me
Re: Too Many High Flyers

(editorial, Aug. 1, 1990). :
Of course civil servants

This is something I often en-
countered during my flying.
years, But, what about politi-

Canadian Forces transport
aircraft suffered nose gear
damage-upon landing
somewhere in the U.S, of A,
And, what was the cargo? A
collection of freeloaders
from Ottawa — senators and
MPs of all political persua-
sions, including Mr. Jim
Fulton. ,
They were all on a junket
to meet with their
freeloading U.S. counter-
parts — assorted senators
and congressmen from
Washington, D.C. You
could hardly call that a
“*payload’’,

This was misuse of
military transport aircraft,
which should only be used
for the transport of military
personnel and/or equipment.

This is an insult to armed
forces aircrew, dedicated to
put their lives on the line
every time they take off.

Maybe Mr. Fulton should
ask the defence minister to
put a stop to this practice.

Eric Brorup,
Terrace, B.C,

Kuwait

Dear Sir:

As a Terrace resident and
Iraqi born, I want to talk
about the invasion by Iraq of
Kuwait, not to justify the ac-
tion but to share informa-
tion.

Kuwait was a province of
Iraq. They are the same peo-
ple, depending upon fishing
before the discovery of ail by
British companies.

Iraq was called
Mesopoiamia, one of the
early civilizations dating
back to 7,000 years ago.

After the First World War,
the British interfered to
create Iraq from a remnant
of the Ottoman empire. It
holds oil reserves of some
100 billion barrels.

The Iran-Iraq war halted
exports through Syria and
the Persian Gulf. Construc-
tion of proposed pipelines
through Saudi Arabia, Jor-
dan and Turkey helped
assure the flow of oil abroad
but Iraq needed a strategic
poiint to stop the Iran inva-
sion in the future and the
best point is Bobian Island,
which belongs to Kuwait.

Iraq tried to buy the island
to help the Gulf states from
Iran invasions and. secure
south Iraq from the Persians,

Kuwait sold oil cheaply,
which affected the price of
oil in Iraq and its economy
which needed a lot of effort

cont'd A6

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