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2 T:C KAl.Y ENN AK E Ne"\'J Credit - Six Nations Reporter Published at Ohsweken 1 Ontario ; Ca~ada. Editors and Publishers A. and W. Jamieson Authorized as second class mail, Post Office Department, Ottawa and f or Payment of Postage in Cash. oooco•o 0 oooooeocoooooooooooo oo oooeooooooooooooooo•ooooooooooooooooooooooooo Remedial 2,ci;ion urged ( continued) Negotiations are now underway, he said , to determine what share Ontario would re- ceive of royalties from any of the reserves' mineral wealth. In an interview Mr. Clark sai d the provincial department of Lands and Forests is bargaining with officials of t he federal department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development. Royal ties from mineral 1-1eal th on all Indian reserves belong to the federal govern- ment, he said, but Ontario had won rights to half the wealth of some southern reserves under the Land Resources Agreement of 1924 . Mr. Clark said the province had not yet t ried to collect any of the money. He said the Six Nations Reserve near Caledonia is one of the Indian areas covered in the Ontario- Ottawa agr.eement. He criticized Ontario for trying to make money from the reserve without providing financial or social ass i stance f or the Indi3ns . Eamon Park, assistant to t~e Can~dian Steelworkers director, said the federal gov- ernment spoke with a "forked tongue 11 cm Indian problems. The steelworkers official rapped federal administ:".'ator s for encouraging U.S. mining companies to exploit Canada's northern resource s without ensuring t:2at the companies used native workers. - .. . (Latest government statistics show that. about 97 percent of Indian students fail to reach Grade 12 . Nr. Park said U. S. mining companies were demanding Grade 12 educ:_at}on for truck drivers.) ····- , __ :: Federal government policy 1.-ras defended as uniform, if 01.;-tdated, by MP Mark McGu~gan who was substituting for Hr •. A.hdras. But Mr 1 McGuigan, a former dean of law at the University of Windsor Law Sqhool agreed that fec,eral government should honor some Indian treaties. "We can hardly ask Indians to respect the laws of Canada i:,rhen the law means nothing but broken treaties to them," he said. "A white man's worl d11 Chie f narrates frustrati ons Indian Chief Omar Peters set the tone for a weekend di scussion of human rights here when he told how he had gone 1-1i thout sleep for 24 hours to catch buses to the conference. "But I had to come be ca11se if I didn't then you 1 d say: "That I s those darn Indians again, they never keep their promj_ses . 11 Chief Peters, executiye .clirector of the Un.ion of Ontario. Indians, then described the frustrations and fe ars of an Indian in a white Canadians 1 world. He talked halt- ingly, sometime s laughing at h:i. s ovm mispronunciations. But his words - and those of Chief Wilmer Nadjawan - seemi ngl y made a grea,ter i mpression on a group of Ontario union- ists than the studied _speeche s of white e:-cperts on ~he Indian-Eskim_o- Tfotis problem in : Canada. The setting was the human rights panel of the annual education conference of the Ontario Federation of Lal::lor meeting at Niagara . Falls, Ont. Saturday and Sunday..,. • · About 85 union members heard Chi ef Peters' tell how he had :repeatedly tried to enter · the Toronto headquarters · of Ontario Hydro when he was a young man looking for an elect trician.'·s j ob. "But I couldn't get past those two big pillars. I don I t know how many times I tried but there was a psychological block about them," he said. And they heard ' Chief Peters - a stocky man· in his late fifties - tell how he sat, head down, during his firi:;-c ·y-ear in a white man 1 s · s chool, afraid to speak in his poor English. Both chiefs said they hacl. belonged to the Just Society during _the Second World War. "I joined the Just Society i n 1942 1 11 said Chief Nadjawan, of the Cape Croaker Reserve on the Bruce Peninsula. ,11 .And I . was mustered out in 1945 and went back to being a "Native Canadian. 11 There is no sense in the federal government spending -mi_llion~ of do;l.lars annually in educating _Canada's 25O,OOO _treaty I ndian ::i if some died from malnutrition in freez- ing sh~cks , . Chief Nad jawan s aid. There -i,jasri, 1 t much sense in education either, another speaker · suggested, when scho ol • textbooks in \Jestern Canada said Indian intelligence had been permarierrtly dulled by t he cold climates .in which their ancestors lived. continued