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• NEW C9ED IT T E r'\A W EN N.A l<E • . •• . _ • ••• ., .. .. , " : •,a••. • _-, l "." a·.··:··.·. .. .. C • ". • . . / SIX NA TION S _ ··_--·--~·------i~-t PO-RT ER / ------ ----- _ _._._. - ......,,_......_ -- - -- -- -- - - -- - - - - - - -- --- ------ - ---- - -------------- ) ( :--r - - - , f------,-\. ..L --1 .. j - --- - - - - - - - - - .,.__ - - --___ - - -- - - .. ,. - ----~ ----. - -- ----- - -- ___ .___, __ - -~- February ·19 , 1969 Sixtieth Edition SIX NATIONS NEJ>JS 11 Indians Must Be Heard11 James Brown , MP for Brant , Tuesday made a plea to th8 Indians affairs department for Six Nations Reserve representation to a meeting in Ottawa concerning revisions to t h e Indian Act. Mrc Br·own 0alled the lack of Six Nations representation "ridiculous11 , considering the Six Nations include 20 per cent of Indians in Ontario. "These people d.re one of the most ad.va.ncsd groups of Indians in Canada," he said. "They must be heardo" The Six Nations Reserve was represented at preliminary discussions on revisions of t he act at Toronto in January, but no Six Nations delegation was selected for the con- ference which is to be held in Ottawa within the next six weeks. r-- -, Mr. Brown said the department is considering the pleao Ottawa Plan Aids Re s erve Sanitation Nearly 100 homes on the Six Nations Reserve have had improvements to plumbing in the past year under a federal government sanitation program. In ari.' effort to improve sanitation on the Indian reserves, the government ,initiated the sanitary incentive plan about two years a.goo The government provides 50 pe~ cent of the cost of the material, while the appli- . cant pays the remainder of the cost of material and 100 percent of the install-a~Jon. Under the plan, the federal government has provided $29 ,OOO in the past yea,r·. as its share of the material. It is est imated that the 'project has created improvement of · ·. nearly $90,000 in plumbing during that period~ The former government · sanitation plai1 provide·d arr· material, but . the project had ~ .· . . . l little success • . The improvements in·some cas es include whole new bathrooms wh;i.le . in othe::rs they include new septic tanks , drains or· improvements tq old bcl,fhrooms •. ~i tage of Indians Must_Be ReCf gilized" Tom Anaquod, an Indian from Vancouver, says public recognition of the unique cult- m'al heritage of the Canadian Indian would be a major step towar.ds racial equality in Canada. Mr~ Anaquod 9 who repr~sented. Canadian Indians and the Bahai Community of Canada a t the Canaciian human rights conf e;ence in Ottawa last December, was here to present · (,opies of a brief on -:he :rights of C~mada 1 s Indians to various Nova Scotian groups. continued \ \ \