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Wuttunee 'horrified' by nursery rhyme

When Yvonne Wuttunee bought a nursery rhyme record and bookset for her six-year-old daughter, Terra-Dawn, she never imagined for one minute that this would lead her to make resolutions at an All Chiefs' conference or to organize a delegation to the International court.

It all started when Wuttunee began to read the rhymes to her daughter. AT first she read the usual traditional rhymes such as Humpty Dumpty and Jack and Jill. However, one rhyme called Ten Little Indians made her stop short.

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A recent Statement of Claim by the four Hobbema Indian Bands with the Federal Court of Canada, regarding Rupert's Land, has far-reaching and long-standing implications.

The area in question encompassed almost half the land mass of present-day Canada.

Originally, Rupert's Land included most of what is today the three prairie provinces, the Northwest Territories (NWT), and the upper reaches of Ontario, Quebec and Labrador.

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From education to survival, from rights to indignities-these were the concerns on the minds of Alberta's Treaty Eight chiefs, band representatives, and other interested and concerned parties at a recent workshop held at Jasper's Sawridge Hotel.

The issues represented a broad spectrum of viewpoints among the Treaty 8 leaders with the most emphasis put on wildlife, education, unity, and a call for action to defend against the indignities faced by Aboriginal people's misrepresented treaties.

These are the words of some of those leaders.

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"Government is greedy," said 76 year old Dan McLean, a Native trapper from the Fox Creek area of Alberta. "They are going to sell off my land-maybe to some rich millionaire from Europe or Asia. They'll have more treaty right than we do. If these new wildlife regulations are implemented, there will soon be no more unoccupied crown lands for us to hunt and trap on. This is the way I understand it."

McLean's concerns were one of many brought to light at a Treaty 8 workshop (on hunting, fishing trapping) held at the Sawridge Hotel in Jasper, March 14-15.

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Two new natural areas established

Official establishment of two new natural areas in Alberta was recently announced by Hon. Don Sparrow, Minister of Forestry, lands and Wildlife.

The two conservation sites are the Wagner Natural Area, 6 km northwest of Edmonton south of Highway 16X, and the Pine Sands Natural Area, about 40 km northeast of the town of Athabasca on the south side of the Athabasca River.

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Two new natural areas established

Official establishment of two new natural areas in Alberta was recently announced by Hon. Don Sparrow, Minister of Forestry, lands and Wildlife.

The two conservation sites are the Wagner Natural Area, 6 km northwest of Edmonton south of Highway 16X, and the Pine Sands Natural Area, about 40 km northeast of the town of Athabasca on the south side of the Athabasca River.

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Calgary Mayor Ralph Klein entered the frey between the Lubicon Lake band and the federal government by announcing he is writing a letter to External Affairs Minister Joe Clark demanding the government re-enter negotiations with the Lubicon Chief Bernard Ominiyak over the band's land claim.

After an hour-long meeting with Ominiyak and several representatives from Treaty 7, in Calgary's City Hall, March 12, Klein said he had requested the meeting with Ominiyak because he "has fears for the 1988 Calgary Olympic Winter Games."

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I get a warm feeling when I think about the average Canadian these days, thanks to two public opinion polls. They show that Canadians are solidly behind the idea of Native self-government. But these same polls also give me a pretty cold feeling when I think about the First Ministers-or at least most of them.

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South African Ambassador to Canada Glenn Babb received a formal request for foreign aid to the tune of $99 million from Chief Louis Stevenson during Babb's (March 10, 1987) controversial visit to the Peguis Indian Reserve in Manitoba, last week.

Stevenson revealed that he wanted his appeal for foreign aid to Pretoria S.A. on the record to embarrass Canada's federal government for its treatment of it's own aboriginal people.

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South African Ambassador to Canada Glenn Babb received a formal request for foreign aid to the tune of $99 million from Chief Louis Stevenson during Babb's (March 10, 1987) controversial visit to the Peguis Indian Reserve in Manitoba, last week.

Stevenson revealed that he wanted his appeal for foreign aid to Pretoria S.A. on the record to embarrass Canada's federal government for its treatment of it's own aboriginal people.