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- . . o . . OTTAWA - CARE of Canada is within $60,000 of reaching the goal of its Fall I97I "World of CARE" campaign, set at $750,000. Thomas Kines, National Director of CARE
announced to-day that there had been unprecedented response from certain sectors of :the Canadian public, notably miles for Hillions committees in Ottawa, Toronto, :Montreal, Calgary, Edmonton, VanCOuver, Kitchener and Kingston and Lions Clubs in (Newfoundland, Nova Soctia, New Brunswick, Quebec, Ontario, Alberta and British Columbia. The Lions not only contribute funds to special CARE programs but provide the manpower to carry out Nalk registrations and man checkpoints on CARE's behalf. Contributions continue to flow in at an average rate of $4,000 per day from among 230,000 Federal Government employees in the capital and across Canada and the ‘ majority of CARE's 80,000 regular donors who are particularly-generous at this time
of year.
Mr. Kines also expressed gratitude to stantial contribution of air time and
estimated at more than $200,000.
Demands on CARE's resources overseas, quakes, tidal waves, floods and war adding to human misery in areas where most CARE International has
families already live on incomes of about $l00 per year.
spent over $2,000,000 on the Pakistani refugees in India of which CARE Canada's share was over $200,000. Should peace be restored in East massive rehabilitation scheme will have to be launched and will be in the forefront as they have been continually for While world attention is focused on East Bengal, CARE must feeding and self-help programs in 32 developing countries throughout Asia, Africa
. “We are therefore most grateful” Hr. Kines continued, "for the
and Latin America. . iere is still so much to be done-
on-going support of so many Canadians who realize tI and we wish them all a very Herry Christmas and a good New Year:?,
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By Peter Moore.
The Indian Act should be retained for theprotection of Indian Reserve lands, and whatever changes might be forthcoming for the Act need only be slight unidifications, Norman Lickers of Associatin of Iroqrois and Allied Indians told the Indian Affairs Branch recently. '
Alarmed by the news that Jeannette Lavell has
retained her Indian status in contravention of Section
l2 of the present Act, the Iroqlois Association and other Indian federations saw the decision as a possible first step in the abolition of the Indian Act and the implementation of the White Paper on Indian Affairs Policy of 1969.
It was decided by the federation to incorporate its collective opinion on the Lavell case in its sixty-six page reply to the White Paper, the third such reply since the Department’s publication.
Briefly, the Iroqiois position is this: I) that the Indian Act itself is not at fault with regard to whatever problems the Indian population has, but rather ad- ministrators of the legislation have been less than adequate; and 2) that education systems in which Indian children are taught should be on or close to reserves, that the curricula reflect Indian values where possible, and that Indian parents should be involved in chasing teaching staff.
Regarding the Lavell case and‘its reperéussions, Nina Burnham, also a member of the Association, stated that the decision by the Court of Appeals poses more problems for the children of such' marriages (Indians to non-Indians) than it solves. The Act, according to the Association, should be revised so that individual band councils can decide their own membership, an important point to con-I sider in that Indian customs among“ different cultural groups often had radically different ideas on thei status ofIndian/non-Indian marriages. . ~ i
Thunder Bay area Ojibwasi' for example, according to one archeologist, created” two totally new clans; for non-Indian males who married Indian females,; and their children were invested with these clan titles; this in itself was against legislation which occurred later. . -
The Association also wants to see payments to» those who voluntarily give up their Indian statusf
taken out of federal funds, not capital funds of in- :'
dividual bands, which, Miss Burnham stated, “should . be kept intact for posterity”. Presently,- anyone who
chooses to enfranchise is entitled to receive “one . per capita share of the capital and revenue moneys”
held for the band, and what his share would have
been for the next tWenty years (15, la and b), and
that lands to which he held title, cease to be reserve . lands (110,3). Earlier franchisements- under present
legislation have dealt crippling blows to band funds,
and children of enfranchised adults have been, in
Miss Burnham’s words, “made to suffer by parents
becoming enfranchised”. "In these cases, it can_ truthfully be said that their inheritance was sold. for a ‘mess of pottage’” (presumably referring to cases in which capital funds proved to be, ac- ’ cording to treaty wording, little more than token
payments. '
the electronic and print media for the sub-. column space donated to CARE during the year,
however, have been unusually heavy with earth
Bengal by year's end, a CARE's-experienced staff the past 20 years. continue to support its
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Indian Affairs Minister Jean Cur-etien was present.
.at the meeting, and concurred with the Association’s
mood of disquiet over the Lavell case, stating further
- that he hoped that the decision wduld be appealed.
He added that the Department would be willing to, help any group that wished to launch an appeal._ . “Perhaps this should be corrected and provision made for such children so enfranchised to be allowed to apply for reinstatement into the membership
of the band, subject to band council approval.”
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