http://dx.doi.org/10.14288/1.0420102
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is part of: BC Historical Newspapers
contributor: Langmann, Inge
contributor: Langmann, Rudy
issued: 2022-09-15
issued: 1969-12-03
aggregated CHO: https://open.library.ubc.ca/collections/alderstar/items/1.0420102/source.json
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note: w Chief Joe Gabriel and his wife Maureen,, outside their heme onlMcMillan Island Want Reserves Incorporated As Municipalities Heredittry Chief Joe Gabriel of the McMillan Island band attend ed the first Annual Conference of Indian Chiefs held at Kamloops earlier this month. The main purpose of the gathering, be reported, was to sound out feelings of solidarity among this province's native people -- and in light of the fact that one hundred sixty-one of a possible one hundred eighty-eight lexers attended, it appears that a strong group identity exists, Gabriel said that the maintopic on debate was the government's current "White Paper"; which he described as "the most recent attempt to deprive us of our aboriginal rights." He went on to point out that for centuries Indian people have been accepting at face value treaties and agreements that were not honored, witness that the reserves are the last pitiful remains of a rather sizable chunk of real estate once owned by them - - and that the last instalment, namely the Province of British Columbia, was taken summarily without benefit of a treaty of any kind. Small wonder the Indians suffer a feeling of intense mistrust for all government suggestions. Both Gabriel and Cecil M.Reid. former Langley ite and now "band manager of Bella Bella, put forward the suggestion that three who wish to see the •reserves incorporated as municipalities ex- .•rt their rights under section HI of the Indian Act. This would allow them to renounce Indian status and accept the franchise. "The reserves must be kept." Gabriel said. "They are a place of socj-1 and economic acceptance in a world of rejection. They give die Indian who does not want to enter the white man's rat race a place to go." Gabriel was of the opinion diat die meet important outcomes were two; firstly a precedent was set whereby Indians have had proposed legislation interpreted by legal counsel, and -: secondly, a framework was es-" tablished to assure continued group actum. Th…
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