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MOHAWK NATIVES who. participated in last summers Oka blockade spoke to local
natives Friday at LAU, WELNEW Tribal School. The group, released on bail and still facing
charges, are on a cross-Canada trip to meet with local native groups.

7 disputed school site on Gowdy
# Road in Central Saanich.

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The conflict at Oka is one
extreme in native land negotia-
tions, Paul said.

He hopes the Saanich tribe, in
its negotiations over the disputed
school site on Gowdy Road, can
demonstrate a peaceful resolution
of a land claim.

“We are a people that are really
survivors,” Paul said, detailing
some of the problems brought to
natives after they welcomed Euro-
pean settlers to North America.

Despite the many injustices
against natives, Paul said the
native people must share their

@ respect for the earth in order to

prevent environmental destruction.

“We have a responsibility to
extend a hand again. When we
stopped looking after the land, we
started to follow a society that was
on a course of self-destruction,”
he said.

Tsartlip Band Chief Daniel Sam
said native land claims must be
resolved to ensure a better future
for native young people.

“It’s our land: It’s our future
generation that we're thinking
about here.”

He cited support from both the
native and non-native community
during the recent blockade.

Elder Samuel Sam, speaking in
both Sencoten and English, said,
“T ask the creator to be with my
brother and all the young people
and try and protect the land we’ ve
always lived on.

“Tt is ours — not to say that our
brothers and sisters have to get
off.”

Charles Elliott, who organized

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the potluck supper and meeting in
conjunction with Greg Sam, noted
one European settler was given
600 acres of land. At the same
time, the entire native band was
given a reserve of only 600 acres.
A peace treaty between the
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“They proclaimed it a land
treaty and stripped us of our lands
and our resources and our rights,”
he added.

“When I go out hunting, there is
no more forest out. there,” Tsey-
cum Chief. David Bill said. —

Greg Sam said compensation

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land was never paid. He also
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