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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

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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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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