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“THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JULY 1, 1980.
Canada's Indian problem Princess visits home
DON IDDON'S DIARY
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| If you' mot Miss Wanda Big Conde, a sophisticated, raven-haired beauty who teachas dancing in Toronto you wouldn't believe that Canada has an Indian problem.
A few minutes In a Toronto court-room before Brigadier O.M. Martin, a full-blooded Mo- hawk, and one of Toronto's most eminent magistrates, would convince you that the redskin can be as just as the paleface.
You could point to G. C. Monture, a senior Oltown Gov- ernment. ofelul who served In the Canadian Embhasay of Wash- ington during the war, and say the Indian has equality of oppor- tunity.
But for every Indian like these emancipated few there are five hundred who live in bar- baric, semi-civilised or abject conditions.
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bears dictated their own peace terms with a tomahawk in their hånds.
Descendants of the more' docile tribes. Uke Crees and Algonquins live on barren, rocky or swampy land. Some of them inhabit for paper alum-huts on the fringes of amall towns.
Of 31,000 Indian children of school age today, more than one quarter receive no formal educa- tlon. Only 400 go to high school in their teens.
West Germany, Japan, Tur-jiving by hunting, fishing, or fur years. Until 1939 the TB. death
It is only a few weeks since the last of the nomadic bands was persuaded to settle on a réserve, Most Indians still make their key, Spain and India all are negollating for the
The bow has yielded trapping. purchase to the rifle, the birchbark canoe of wheat from Pakistan, to the aluminium, the gut line the Agriculture Minister, Mr. to the nylon thread. Abdus Sattur Pirzada, reported. Log cabins OF shacks have Japan ham asked for more than replaced the wigwam. Except 100,000 tons of wheat, and India for ceremonial occasions,
the seeks 300,000 tons Turkey al-
feathers and thonged ferkina bought
have been toni ready hna
26,000
abandoned. The from: Pakistan in the past alx braves wear thrtan shirts and months, but has asked for an-
jeans, the squaws gingham frocks other 25,000.
and woolly Jumpers, Requirements for Spuin and West Germany have not yet been assessed, the Min- lier suid.
be
Negollations with Japan will completed by a Pakistan trade delegation which is to arrive in Tokyo In late July or early August, he added.
Mr. Pirzade pointed out Ant Pakistan wheat prices are the lowest in the
the world as a result of
the country's
y's grain surplus. Ito
suld the government had deter- mined to minke minimum when price and insure that it be observed. Associated Press. 7
PRINT CLOTH DEMAND PERSISTS
New York, June 29.
A strong demand for print cloths pursisted in the cotton textile market. Buyers wanted deliveries late this year and the first quarter of 1951.
The den and was attributed to war fears and is possible tight- ening in civlijan supply, rather that improvement in the sales of finished
woods.
Prices moved gcncrally
higher in the print cloth division, with leading con- structions up of a
cent a yard. The wool goods market was firm. *Buyers for the women's wear division were active in tho plece goods market: Inquiry from
wear division the men's
was slow.
But the Indian in still his old self, a coloured man, a native, an aborigine, and subject to all the suspicion and prejudice implied In the common usage of terms.
these
Treaties made 100 years ago
The laws relating to Indians have been unchanged for 70 rate antong Indians was 40 times higher than among whites. Even today it is 11 times higher.
Contact with whites seems to degenerate Indians. If they get whisky Inside them they are apt Every year there to go beserk. are several cases of Indians beat- ing people to denih during drinking bouts and remembering That's nothing of their crime. why publicans won't serve dark- skinned customers.
Suffered from white advice
Many have suffered from white advice. For example one North- ern tribe was told recently that it was nasty to cat the guts of the fish they caught.
Some 65,000 Canadian Indians Dutifully the tribe began to are covered by Treaty
terms clean their fish and eat only the made hundred years ago. flesh, Half of them were wiped They still get treaty money-five | out through loss of essential dollers annually for
vitamins in their diet. braves, squaws popooses, 25 for chiefs.
or
No true Indian can vote, drink, leave his reserve without legal formality. He is a word of the Crown from birth to death His and is treated like a child. property is administered by the Federal Government.
Affairs Indian
Branch of the
Last year an Indian died on a
and
£65,000, Left
reserve
back
Scanty education, often proves worse than none at all. Át the is an moment of writing there Indian in a Quebes jail who is on hunger strike untli "King George gives my people thair lands."
All Indian legislation has been based on the assumption that they were
dying out. So they were up
after the
flu A to 1918, when, number of the Caughnawaga In- epidemic, they reached an all- dlans are such expert trestle-time low of 100,000. Since then bridge builders that they earn they have been recovering sten-
dily. £5,000 a year,
reserve population But the average Indian shoots stands today at 133,000. It is be- ing swollen now at the rate of his own meat,
his own growa potatoes, and
jess eurns
than 3,000 annually £100 a year. He is so inept with cash that often his treaty money, family allowances, pensions and other financial Provisions are paid in tins of food.
It is significant that the pros- perous, well-run reserves are on And these good farming land. reserves are all in the hands of and Rayon goods were quiet. Blackfoot, Blood, Mohawk
other tribes whose warlike for- Associated Press.
World repercussions to Korea fighting
SYDNEY.
The Sydney Mirror made an editorial ap- peal to the government to of for the United States bases in Australia in view of the critical situation in the Pacific. It also suggested that an Ameri- can military mission be sent here "to look at our defences and ad- vite and guide ve."
LAKE
SUCCEB8-The
Aus- tralian Government handed over to General MacArthur, on behalf of the United Nations, two war- ships to be used in aid of the Korean Republic.
The warships are the sloop Shoalhaven and the destroyer
Batann.
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Mr. K. C. G. Shann, Acting Australian representative to the United Nations, handed a note an- nouncing this to Mr. Trygve Lie, United Nations Secretary-Gen- eral.
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This has put the Government in dilemma. Instead of o quaint and almost extinct anach-
ronism on their hands, they now have an acute minority problem..
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Princess Margaret, who last year became President of the Sunshine Nursery Schools for Blind Children at East Grin- stead, Bussox, visited the Institute recently. Photo shows: Princess Margaret, who spent more than an hour watching the children at play, la Intordsted in young Raymond Knowle's confident approach to the horizontal bar~~(AP photo).
Commonwealth supports
U.N. sanctions
London, June 29. Britain was joined by three of her soven Common- wealth partners today in giving support to the United Nations Security Council's military sanctions against the Communist invaders of South Korea.
India, which abstained when the Security Council approved sanctions against Northern Korea on Tuesday, announced her "full acceptance" of the resolution.
How could Canadian represen tatives ut international confer- ences talk blandly of backward races on other continents when. within their own borders, they a primitive people of their stemming from Asiatic
Something had to be
done. This year the Canadian Parlia- ment will enact new legislation to improve the Indian's lot. Since the end of the war
six times decided more money has been spent on taken to back up the resolution Indian welfare thon was cuato- but Britain, Australia and New mary during the 30's and 10.Zealand have already placed times more has been spent on all their naval forces in Japa education, which is the crux of nese waters at the disposal of the problem.
The Indians have not yet what action will be
The handful of Indians who the United States "on behalt have entered white society had of the Security Council in sup- to give up their rights to live on port of the Republic of (South) entailed tribal land. This meant Korea". relinquishing security, dubious though that might be, and facing brisk white competition in in- dustry,
commerce and agriculture on a scale for which no reserve education could prepare them adequately.
For people whose grandfathers had scalped palefaces, thumped war drums and danced round totem poles. It was a tremendolas choice. The fact that some have made it, and prospered, is testi-
Canada also has indicated its support of the Security Council action and has said it will con- for with other United Nations. members as to what action t should take.
In view of American aid to Australia during the Japanese war, the Mirror said, "It is in- cumbent on us as a solemn duty
The Australian note read, "As to repay, no matter in what small
member of the United Nations measure, the debt we owe to the pledged to give effect to the pur- United States."
It added that no time should be poses and principles of Its Char-} mong to their inborn qualities of will be one of the key subjects lost by the Government in offerter, the Australian Government courage and stalciam.
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The Pakistani Prime Minister Liaquat Ali Khan, is due in Lon- don on July 2 and will confer with the British -Immediately
Prime Minister, Clement Attlee. Pakistan's polley toward Korea the two will discuss,
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Ceylon and South Africa-last two members of the Common- wealth are still playing the role of bystander.
Russians cut -electric-power in W. Berlin
Berlin, June 29. Mayor Ernest Router of West Berlin announced to. night that the Rumstansl had served notice that beginning on Friday they no longer would provide electric power to the American, British and Franch sectors in the city.
City officials were unable to estimate Immediately just how seriously the Russian show- down would affect West Ber. sin.
Lator Autor wald, "Tho discontinuance of power by the Russians will not cause any serious consequences. In Wast Berlin,"United Press.
It has decided to place Australian
Is not the fear of ostracian ing "bases or any other require naval vessels now, in Far Eastern which keeps Indians on the re- They know that many might ments, the United States
waters, namely the Shoalhaven serves. desire in building up the demo- and the Bataan, at the disposal eminent white families beast of Indian blood. It is simply a cracies of the Patlic."
of the United States authorities. on behalf of the Security Counell matter of reading, riting and rithmetic The urban develop-
The British Cabinet met for TOKYO,--American authorities in
ment of Canada has set a pre- two and a half hours today to have found no evidence whatever Korea, Port of the Republie of
polley vative) that Britain and the Do- mium on mechanical knowledge. consider Commonwealth How can a boy who was brought towards the Ave-day-old tava- minions form an Empire Com- so far to Indicate that any. Rus- alan airmen
are taking part in the Korean fighting. The bodies
up to trap beaver become a clerk sien of Southern Koren. Shortly mittes on foreign polley!" on the or a truck driver?
after the Cabinet Ministers left grounds that "existing methods The old idea, bred in the days 10 Downing Street, the seven of consultation were unsatisfac- of all downed airmen have been
Commis- of besleged forts, was to get rid Commonwealth High
tory." examined carefully to determine whether any Russians were among
of the Indian. The new idea issioners met the Commonwealth to help him multiply.
Patrick In the Secretary,
He also sold, in answer to Gordon- them. None have been found se
last few years 18 nursing stations, Walker, and the Minister of 1 questions by W. L. Wyatt - (La- Ffor.
150 schools and 2,800 new homes State, Kenneth Younger, to hear bour), that the question of an have been added to reserves the report on the Cabinet's dis-Asiatic pact along the lines. stretching from the US, border
the North Atlantic Pact," "does not arise" out of the ́ events · în to the Arctic Ocean,
ex-Korea.
WASHINGTON,A high Allied military source said that one of the chief purposes of General MacArthur's flying visit to the Korean, Oghting front was to determine whether United States troops were needed.
The
LAKE BUCCES8, The Nether- lands, New Zealand and Belgium the Secretary- have informed General of the United Nations, Mr. Trygve Lie, that they are offer ald to the prepared to
can Republle in its war against Communist North.
Netherlands Government sold that they were considering offering naval help, which would include some first-class units, în the Paclic area.
The New Zealand Government declared that "If necessary" units of the Royal New Zealand Navy would be sent to the scene.
Encouraged to leave
reserve
The curriculum will bo, devised BOMBAY, The, independent Belgium pledged "all useful to give Indian children encour- morning newspaper **Times - of assistance which we can furnish? ogement to quit the reserve, India"
contrasted the Security GANBERRA Authoritative assimilate themselves, in white Council's action in allowing mem-quarters said that Australia would society and become fully. fledged ber nations to aid South Kores suspend the scheduled withdrawal citizens of a country, now in the with its handling of the Kashmir of her forces from Jopun and throes of its industrial revolu-
leave them there until the Korean tion and Indo-China
OM. Martin days, he Brigadier Security
emergency is past.
- would like to see-his- Canadian in dealing with in cynical contrast to its refusal to fame MANILA-President Quirins Indian Brethren enjoying the the aggressor in Kashmir over placed the Philippine armed forces quality that Maoris share with two years and in Indo-China for on a virtual wartime footing in whites in New Zealand,
“But belated attention to the five years makes its judg-face of the Korean situation. altuation places that day at least
at the
The moro auspect,"
President instructed the declared.
Becretary of National Defende, 20 years out. There are many old a-body which, did Reparto Kangleon, to put armed as : being nurred, This "was-illustrated" ingitely during 24-hour alert the recent war when a group of „Canadian War 2 correspondents.
nearly ment all paper
Bald
the
that a
not hesitate to give `n hearing to forces units Hyderabad's, representative, des- Hils: Instructions, followed pile the fact. Whất lta Government of
cussion.
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They also listened to an
planation by the Indian High
Commissioner, Krishna Menon, of India's abstention on Tuesday. in the Security Council.
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Mr. Atlice alde-stopped., ques- tions about British recognition of Communist China, but... Foreign Office sources said that, at this stage, the government j had no intention of voting: for- Commu- nist Chinese ::. membership In United Nations bodies.
service chiefs and local ravern- The Prime Minister spoke” yas
The Ministers were reported to have considered the possibility of following Australia's lead and sending in some RAF planes to help hold the Truman Line
ment authorities ¦ in South against. Communism in Asia....
Western England conferred on Mr. Attise, doveted his briar civil defence measures, "part!- report on the Korean attuation cularly in view of recent Inci
denta in Korea and the world's to the House of Commons to
"expression of gratifica laturbed, political situation, and, tian" at the motion of Australia the Home Secretary, Mr. Chuter and: New Zaxland in placing do, announced that" "the" "govern=" their naval forces in Japanese mant war "following polley of >Waters at the disposal of the building air raidi," shelters and
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