A12 - The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, September 2, 1998 _ Angel or demon? Michael could be both By CHRISTIANA WIENS IN A CLEAN but un- furnished apartment in downtown Terrace, Michael Wallace sits on the floor and speaks in an agitated and excited voice. He explains he has been persecuted by landiords and his wife’s family because he is black. -. He says he knows of sexu- al assaults on women and . children being committed by RCMP officers in Prince Rupert. He’ says he’s been harassed by the RCMP be- cause of this knowledge and also faces an unnecessary mischief charge. ; He believes he’s being confused by the RCMP and by the provincial corrections branch with another Michael Wallace —- one who has a record of stock- piling guns. Wallace was taken to the Prince. George - Regional Correctional Centre after his arrest for mischief. Wallace refused to be pho- tographed and fingerprinted. He was kept there five weeks and was released only after he consented to his prints being taken. But there’s —_ another Michael Wallace, the one others call Michael the Archangel. It’s an archangel Wallace doesn’t want to talk about. “J don’t know anything about that,’” he says raising the tone of his voice. “Sure [Pm religious but that’s something her sister made up because I’m black,’’ he says pointing to a long haired woman quietly sitting on the floor in front of him. She looks back at him and nods. e conservatively dressed woman is Wallace’s wife. She’s from Kincolith. Tn the comer beside her lie a few Bibles. On her left sits a stuffed duffel bag and a neatly packed knapsack. There two other women in the room, an adult daughter and her mother. All three women dress the same —~ knapsacks, long hair, no makeup, long skirts’ and high-collared knit tops. Michael himself wears a suit and a tic. Others. say the women aren't allowed to cut their hair, that they’ve changed their names to reflect those in the Bible and that they’re afraid 10 be touched. Pastors, sisters and com- munity members who know the women say they believe human. contact transfers negative spirits like lust and greed. That even accidental contact requires cleansing chants. His wife’s sister, Cheryl Tait, in Kincolith says Wal- lace believes he’s a man of god — an angel sent here to lead the chosen. “In the year 2000 they wili be the only ones prepared to go to heaven,’’ she says in disbelief. ‘“‘All the other man-made chur- ches are not of Gad,’”' Michael Wallace Virginia Stewart is the family counselor in Kin- colith and drafted a warning ‘to bands in Port Simpson, . Metlakatla and Kitkatla. ‘Stewart says he recruits women with children, he handles their finances, and only allows them to drink goat’s milk and have limited food. “The whole Nisga’a val- “in the year 2000 they will be the only ones prepared to go to heaven. All the other man-made churches. are not of God.” Eventually he'll say he is : God, said Tait. Tait worries about Wal- lace’s influence on her sister at times pausing to cry quietly. ; She suspects Wallace’ haunts local churches look- ing for vulnerable native women to prey on. She’s also asked band councils in Kincolith and Greenville to warn people. Wallace’s mischief charge stems from a June 17 inci- dent in which Wallace en- tered a Kincolith home and tefused to leave. Children’s Raingear Here! 7 | We carry a good selection @ of raingear and boots for § kids of all ages. “ wa rrac Baby's Name: Braedyn Cord Mikael Date & Time of Birth: July 28, 1993 at 12:18 a.m. Weight: 4 Ibs 3.02. Sex: Male Parents: Ambur Hall + Baby's Name: Lane Chayanne Nole Date & Time of Birth: August 18, 1998 Weight: § lbs l4oz. Sex: Male Parents: Cindy Carlick & Quentin Nole + Baby's Name: Brook Suzanne Date & Time of Birth: . August 20, 1998 at 9:20 p.m." Weight: 7 lbs 10 oz. 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Each of the two younger women -has* three children and each has lost those chil- dren.to the children and fainilies meeting up with Wallace. ministry since A social worker report on the seizure of the three chil- dren of the friend of Wal- Jace’s wile refers 0 “iminimal other food items in the home” where they lived with Wallace. © The report also refers to the woman being “‘under the strong influence and contral’’ of Wallace. Wallace met his “wife at the Mission Church of the Shepherd: in Prince Rupert in January of 1997. Annete Olney, who coor- dinates the -church’s soup kitchen, said he attended the church for one day but was asked to leave by Pastor John Wilson because of what he was saying. “He had it in his head everyone’s passessed,’’ she said. - But. before he feft, he belriended the three women who now live with them. He told Olney he came. was an American and had worked in Toronto and Van- couver as a real estate agent before coming north. : “He was really good with words — he could make people believe him,”’ she re- members. RCMP. in Terrace and Prince Rupert know he bas strange beliefs. Police had to use blankets to lift him from the residence in Kin- colith in June because he curls into the fetal position on the floor whenever he’s approached. Wallace is due in court next January to answer to the mischief charge. Wallace and the threc ‘women now face an eviction order because they haven’t yet paid August’s rent on the apartment. It was to have come from the social assistance cheque of one of the women. 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