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2 Delay Act Changes ( continued) postponed, r.1rso Rena Hill tolJ fox nations Council members Thursday a Mrs o Hill 9 councillor and. representative to preliminary discussions in Toronto on revisions of the act 1 told council she contacted MP James Brown and learned that no de- cision had. been reached. on Six Fations representation to the final meeting in Ottawa which has been :;_::,os tponedc The meeting in Ottawa ,·ms to have been held later this montho No date has been 2et for the meeti~go Members of the Six Fations have objected to being excluded from the talks because they represent more than 20 per cent of the Indians in Ontario. Mrso Hil l said Mro Bro ,m was continuing his plea for Six Nations representation . at t he final draft of the acto Curator of Chief~wo o.~ __ Resigns Mrso Joyce Smoke 1 present cuTator 1 advi_sed council Thursday that she is leaving the posto Mrso Smoke, who has been curator of the museum for several years, is moving to Hamiltono Six Nations council is looking for a curator for Chiefswood 1 the historic home of Indian poetess Eo Pauline Johnsono Chiefswood 1 locat ed east of the city on Highway 54 1 contains many of Miss Johnson'is personal effectso More than l.0 1 000 persons pass through the home each yearo Road IVIaintenance on Six Nat ions Reserve Six Nations cm;i.ncil 'l'hursday passed. a supplementary bylaw to provide $189 1 000 for construction and maint 2nance of reserve roadso The money is part of t71.e total :B20 1 000 expected. road expend.i tures for the year,,. .. Of this sum, the department of highways provides about 1175 1 000 1 council provides $23,000 from band funds and. the department of Indian affairs provides the balanceo Council amended the road budget contribut ion from band funds from the original. estimate of $15 1 000 to $23 1 000. g_C?stly ErroE_ An err.or in paperwork has cost Si::-~ Nat ions Council ~>125 1 0000 Council learned of the error Thursday from Donal d Cassiei Six Nations Superintendent, who said that some- where in the paper work when council applied for a l~ 625 1 000 five-year housing incentive program 1 the figure was erroneously placed as ~;5oc:';0000 Under this pl an 1 the depart ment of Indian affairs supplies 1>125 1 000 a year to the bando The . money is then issued on application for i mprovements on existing homes or cons~ruction of new homes on the reserveo The b_orrower then pays the money back to · counciL · The plan is design.eel to be self- sustaining within a few yearso Now instead of council receiving the yearl;y grant of ~1 125 7 000 for five years, it will only receive i-t for four years o Mro Cassie said his department was checking to ascertain if the lost year's grant could be recoveredo He sa.icl that he fully realized all discussions prior to original application had been for ::?625 i 000 and in fact several pieces of correspondence- -with Toronto had included that figu1·e . Ho\,rever 1 somewhere in the original application, the figure $500 1 000 had been substituted for the /;625 1 0000 A report on housing wi ll be completed later this month to determine the extent of assistance-the program has provided" 'Great White' Father The government wants to digest the views of Indian spokesmen before announcing its new policy on Indian affairs 1 the Commons was told Thursdayo Indian Affairs l1inister Jean Chretien said the new policy, to be announced within a few months 1 will show the;t the government was listening when Indians gave their views at 17 consultation meetings on proposed changes in the Indian Acto Robert .'\.ndras 1 . mini ster wi t hout portfolio who has the duty of recommending new policies on Indian affairs, said c,:"2';;- new policy will fail unless it incorporates the advice of Indians and involves more of them in implementationo Mro Chretien said he agree s that the Indian Act is too paternalistic. He sai d 111 of the 135 clauses in the Indian Act require him to do things Indians should be permit~ · ted. to do on their O½"l1.o