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     At the time of my writing 
     
    

    
     of this article members 
     
     of the American Indian 4 
     
     Movement (AIM) are still 
     
     holding on to Wounded Knee. 
     
    

    
     It is appropriate that for 
     
     their place of battle they 
     
     should choose this tiny 
     
     village of forty. It was 
     
     here in 1840 that the Amer— 
     
    
   
   
    
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     ican military massacred 300 
     
     old men , women and child- 
     
     ren of the Sioux nation. 
     
     The Sioux are back led by 
     
     Russell Means and have Sta- 
     
     lted that they will not lea— 
     
     ve until their demands are 
     
     met. All they are asking 
     
     for is that the United Sta— 
     
     tes government look into 
     
    
   
   
    
     .IT __ THEIR LAND 
     
    
   
   
    
     the Bureau of Indian Affairs 
     
     and launch an investigation 
     
     into treaties that have 
     
     been violated. 
     
    

    
     Means, Oglala Sioux has 
     
     told reporters that they 
     
     are willing to die at Woun— 
     
     ded Knee rather than submit 
     
     to the slavery that the 
     
     American Indian has known 
     
    
   
   
    
     The two James Bay development projects will affect 
     
     drainage areas stretching from a point 200 miles north 
     
     at Montreal up a: tar as Ungeva Bay. a distance 0! 1.000 
     
     miles. ‘ 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
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     " All actions labelled as 
     
    
   
   
    
     ed? 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     . "going to far"had a revolutionary significance. 
     
     To put it bluntly,1t was necessary to bring about a brief reign of terror 
     
    
   
   
    
     infie“ ry rural area;otherwise one could never suppress the activities 
     
    
   
   
    
     of the counter-revolutionaries in the countryside or overthrow the author— 
     
     ity of the gentry.To right a wrong it is necessar 
     
     limits,and wrong cannot be righted without the pr 
     
    
   
   
    
     ----Mao Tse—tung, 1927 
     
    
   
   
    
     y.to exceed the proper 
     
     oper limits being exceed— 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
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     for so long. The end of the 
     
     chapter has not yet been 
     
     written but we can only 
     
     hope that it does not re— 
     
     sult in the second massacre 
     
     at Wounded Knee. 
     
    

    
     The problem is not an Am- 
     
     erican one. It involves 
     
     Canada and all Canadians 
     
     just as directly. Our hope 
     
     is that we learn from what 
     
     is happening. If we contin— 
     
     ue to violate the treaties 
     
     then we must not feign Sur— 
     
     prize if violence occurs. 
     
    

    
     Two years ago a Chief of 
     
     the Mic—mac Nation Was 
     
     arrested for fishing 
     
     salmon out of season. In 
     
     the treaty which was signed 
     
     with the Mic—macs the right 
     
     to fish and hunt was gran— 
     
     ted on a year long basis. 
     
     The case finally ended up 
     
     in the Supreme Court of 
     
     Canada where he was found 
     
     guilty of fishing. The 
     
     grounds were that since the 
     
     Canadian government had 
     
     not signed the treaty. (It 
     
     was signed before Confeder- 
     
     ation) it was not liable 
     
     to abide by it. 
     
    

    
     Presently the governments 
     
     of Quebec and Canada are 
     
     attempting to force the Nat- 
     
     ive Indians off their home 
     
     in the James Bay region. 
     
     The reason for this is not 
     
     so they can better the liv- 
     
     ing and working conditions 
     
     of the Indians but so they 
     
    
   
   
    
     can flood the entire region 
     
     in order to create hydro— 
     
     electric power. The govern- 
     
     ments have decided that 
     
     electricity takes predomin— 
     
     ance over the wants and de- 
     
     sires of people. 
     
    

    
     The problem is that devel— 
     
    
   
   
    
     lopment has priority over 
     
    
   
   
    
     people. We sit here on 
     
     Prince Edward Island and 
     
     pretend that absolutly 
     
     nothing that happens off 
     
     the Island affects us. The 
     
     Indian Nations are the 
     
     native people of North Am- 
     
     erica and we the invaders. 
     
     We must support them in th— 
     
     eir demands that they be 
     
     given a fair break, if it 
     
     were to happen to us or our 
     
     neighbors we would be out— 
     
     raged. Unless the support 
     
     of all Canadians goes out' 
     
     to these peoples they will 
     
     lose out to big government. 
     
     It is our duty and respon— 
     
     sibility to make sure this 
     
     does not happen. We must 
     
     make sure that people, and 
     
     that is the only criterion, 
     
     be treated fairly and with 
     
     honesty. 
     
    
   
   
    
     DON GRAY