Page AG - The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, April 21, 1993

LETTERS

TO THE TERRACE STANDARD

life.
I read your letter March 311 con-
cerning native people in Canada.

At first I felt very angry, but,
then J realized that this {s not the
way native people think of them-
selves. We do-not think of self
government as racist nor are we
asking for apartheid.

[ am sorry that you do not un-
derstand self government for na-
live people. If you tnily un-
derstood the meaning, and not

f i agreed (to the confidentiality represent the people,’ said Weis- - . ;
You d @) nM ot U n ad e i st a r ad MIX YOUR OWN atia Blocks RED PAVERS which restricts the amount of In- some of the conditions there. If 1 clause),’” Weisgerber continued. gerber. peer Opening act for Freddie Fender &
CONCRETE Panto B OCR PAVERS formation available on the ~ had to do it over again on access But Weisgerber did say there is The confidentiality clause in the
: . 60¢ Each Nisga’a land claims talks. to. information, I would have the Texas Tornadoes
An open letter to understood our culture and tradi- and are very proud to be native as WASHED CONCRETE ig x 16. The agreement setting out how tak "uch tougher’ stand? a need for some confidenliality agrecment setting out how the
Mr. Bill Homburg: tions, you would not be so bitter you are proud to be what you are, AGGREGATE ONLY $20 eae a ee oliations on the claim are to . a much tougher stand, within the talks, Nisga’a claim should be negotia- .
Dear Sir: toward your fellow human Tracy Casimel, PER PICK UP LOAD yo tne Jace between the sald Weisgerber, ; And he said it was best that the — led perlains to details of positions
] am a native woman and have _ deings. (Kstii-You-Koom-Woo), : Canta ¢ and the Ni pare “We went in saying, ‘Look, we province act for third party inter- and documents exchanged.
bets Canadian citizen all of my We are here and always will be, Hazelton, B.C. PORTLAND CEMENT . GREY PAVERS | : 1 confidential age acontains believe the negotiations Should be ests instead of having a large © ‘There are provisions for all or 635-6630

y , ONLY $8,00 45¢ EACH -- a confidentiality clause. as open as possible,’ ’? he said. number of players at the negolial- one of the parties to spread in-

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He'd do land claims differently next time

affairs: minister Jack Weisgerber

Says he regrets signing a deal

“ «That: -clause and - the -talks: have we

been «criticized. because of the
lack ‘of. information - being made

4 available. .. .
.SWeisgerber was aboriginal af-
~ fairs minister inthe Vander Zalm
. Social Credit government which
joined talks already underway be-
tween. the federal government and
othe Nisga‘a in 1991.

- Joining those talks in progress

: made it difficult for the province

to get all that it wanted, he said.
“Tt came down to the last issue
on the table. We capitulated to

“*In order for land claims settie-.
ments to succeed, we have to
have broad public suppori. There
has to be an-opporlunity to follew
the process rather than see the
results after negotiations,” Weis-
gerber said.

Not ‘agreeing to the con-—

fidentiality clause risked ‘not hav-
ing the negotiations go ahead, he
added, .

“At the end of the day, because

_ of the desire to have negotiations

with the Nisga’a proceed, we

“ing table.

“What I’m talking about is in-

ocred regrets secrecy |

TERRACE ~~ Former aboriginal

formation, an open process, The
province has a responsibility to

formation out to selected people
or groups or fo the public at large.

The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, April 21, 1993 - Page A7

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love our fellow human beings.
We treat others as we would like
to be treated in return.

_Your comments about the Cath- permit, both up $2. Canadians were still ‘‘well be-
erenchoseiotte tuth Piano Stylings by — MIX CONCRETE AND MANY OTHER PRODUCTS -, Sanaa rsidene also faco $2 ow” similar charges levied in 11:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m. Everv Da
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school for a few years and not
one day that I ever remember,
were we forced to learn and speak
English.

I remember the native children
teaching the teachers and super-
visors to speak our native lan-
guage.

The communities we live in,
‘you would probably call Indian
reserves, are filled with many dif-
ferent nationalities in whites,
blacks and yellows, as you de-
scribed earlier, and also all of us
brown people (natives),

J am very sorry that you com-
pared us native people to the im-
migrants, We always ‘felt very
proud to share our country with
fellow human beings such as
yourself,

I never’met a native person in

my jifediwa Aging for
ihe plist Ipt of na-

tives who ee ‘Teached the goals
they wanted fo accomplish.

We all work very hard to get
what weneed. -

Native people should ‘stop dis-
criminating themselves. We are
not what people like yourself
think we are,

We will get to work and con-
tinue to join in with the rest of the
world.

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‘And the new fees for non-

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1993,

Do you think that running gam- f L gcHaoL DISTRICT NO. 88
bling ‘halls, as you stated, is ‘a On REINEY STREET
wrong. I myself attend these gam- TERRACE B.C,
bling halls which we call bingo. I {604) 635-4931

see schools, community halls, and
many other activitics and events
happen because of these Fundrais-
ing activities. a

I have not seen any native
people smuggling cigarettes and
making a bad name for them-
selves, What T have seen on tele-
vision, tadio stations and news
paper are all nationalities smug-
gling drugs, alcohol and goods
into Canada.

As the old natives say “Don’t
Judge another human being until
you have walked a mile in their
moccasins,’?

Maybe if you did this, and truly

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