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Visits to the firehall are time-honoured and exciting sorts of field trips for local school children.

Shown here are Year One and Two students from Stephanie Moulton’s class at E.T. Kenney
primary school.

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Terrace Review — Wednesday, June 5, 1991 B7

# Natives have to be better

for careers, seminar told

by Harriett Fjasgesund

Affectionally known as a
member of ‘the gravel road
cops’’ (because they spend a lot
of their time travelling on gravel
roads), Cnst. Alex Angus of the
New Aiyansh detachment was
one of the many guest speakers
during the Kermode Friendship
Centre’s Career Days seminar
May 31.

Angus, who has been a police
officer for 15 years now, encour-
ages young people to join the
police force, which he describes
as much more than just a career.
He says it is not any harder for a
native to join the force than it is
for a non-native, The same rules
apply to everyone. That there is
racism in the force is a mis-
conception, he says.

“Fverybody is equal at depot
(police officer training academy
in Regina), nobody is special. It
doesn’t matter what color or
creed you are. When I hear
young people say they are
treated unfairly, I say, ‘Why not
join the force and do something
constructive about your
gripes?’”? Training for a police
officer takes six months, and
every. year they are required to
take two or three courses on up-
grading. .

He adds that there are areas of
the province where native con-
stables are in demand. Working
as a peace officer, he says, is a
demanding job, but it is never
boring. There is always. some-
thing new.

Angus polices three com-
munities in the Nass, including
one non-native community
(Nass Camp), and admits that
he has an advantage in that he
can readily converse with the
elders because he speaks the
native language. He advises that
anyone who is interested in join-
ing the police force, or who
would like more information,
should contact their local de-

_ tachment.

Another guest speaker was
Mathew Moore, a specialist in
Native economic development.
He says attitudes toward Native
peoples are changing, but he
adds that those changes are com-

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ing about very slowly. ‘‘Native
politicians have been twisting
arms and kicking doors. Up un-
til about two years ago Native
communities were policed, now
they police for Native com-
munities. There’s a big dif-
ference.’’ He says that in many
areas there are still barriers to
Natives; being good isn’t
enough, he explains, you have to
be a lot better. ‘‘In both the pro-
vincial and federal governments
it’s hard to find Natives in top
notch positions.”

A recent study of Natives in
the work force came up with
these figures:

Natives employed full-time:
27%,

Natives employed part-time:
16%.

Natives employed seasonally:
27%,

Natives underemployed or
unemployed: 31%.

Natives self-employed: 2%. .

Another problem, Moore
says, is that many Native com-
munities spend close. to $1
million a year training people,
but then the communities don’t
get those people back because
they prefer to stay in the bigger
centers where there may be more
opportunities. He adds that they
are trying to change that.

Moore points out that many
natives continually choose ca-
reers in teaching ox become law-
yers, and: while he finds nothing
wrong with those professions, he
adds that there are a great many
opportunities out there for in-
dividuals who are. willing to
work hard and stick it out.

Something Moore finds ironic
is that the land in the Nass
Valley is good agricultural land,
yet most of the people there buy
90 percent of their groceries in
supermarkets in Terrace.
‘There is a stigma about
farmers. I see nothing wrong
with getting your hands dirty
and producing something.” -

Another area Moore touched
on was self-government for

‘bands and tribal groups. ‘‘We’re

not asking for the world, we just
want to govern our own laws,’’

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