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     OTTAWA - CARE of Canada is within $60,000 of reaching the goal of its Fall I97I 
     
     "World of CARE" campaign, set at $750,000. Thomas Kines, National Director of CARE 
     
    
     announced to-day that there had been unprecedented response from certain sectors of 
     
     :the Canadian public, notably miles for Hillions committees in Ottawa, Toronto, 
     
     :Montreal, Calgary, Edmonton, VanCOuver, Kitchener and Kingston and Lions Clubs in 
     
     (Newfoundland, Nova Soctia, New Brunswick, Quebec, Ontario, Alberta and British 
     
     Columbia. The Lions not only contribute funds to special CARE programs but provide 
     
     the manpower to carry out Nalk registrations and man checkpoints on CARE's behalf. 
     
     Contributions continue to flow in at an average rate of $4,000 per day from among 
     
     230,000 Federal Government employees in the capital and across Canada and the ‘ 
     
     majority of CARE's 80,000 regular donors who are particularly-generous at this time 
     
    
     of year. 
     
    
     Mr. Kines also expressed gratitude to 
     
     stantial contribution of air time and 
     
    
     estimated at more than $200,000. 
     
    
     Demands on CARE's resources overseas, 
     
     quakes, tidal waves, floods and war adding to human misery in areas where most 
     
     CARE International has 
     
    
     families already live on incomes of about $l00 per year. 
     
    
     spent over $2,000,000 on the Pakistani refugees in India of which CARE Canada's 
     
     share was over $200,000. Should peace be restored in East 
     
     massive rehabilitation scheme will have to be launched and 
     
     will be in the forefront as they have been continually for 
     
     While world attention is focused on East Bengal, CARE must 
     
     feeding and self-help programs in 32 developing countries throughout Asia, Africa 
     
    
     . “We are therefore most grateful” Hr. Kines continued, "for the 
     
    
     and Latin America. . 
     
     iere is still so much to be done- 
     
    
     on-going support of so many Canadians who realize tI 
     
     and we wish them all a very Herry Christmas and a good New Year:?, 
     
    
     should i be kept 
     
    
     By Peter Moore. 
     
    
     The Indian Act should be retained for theprotection 
     
     of Indian Reserve lands, and whatever changes 
     
     might be forthcoming for the Act need only be slight 
     
     unidifications, Norman Lickers of Associatin of 
     
     Iroqrois and Allied Indians told the Indian Affairs 
     
     Branch recently. ' 
     
    
     Alarmed by the news that Jeannette Lavell has 
     
    
     retained her Indian status in contravention of Section 
     
    
     l2 of the present Act, the Iroqlois Association 
     
     and other Indian federations saw the decision as a 
     
     possible first step in the abolition of the Indian Act 
     
     and the implementation of the White Paper on Indian 
     
     Affairs Policy of 1969. 
     
    
     It was decided by the federation to incorporate 
     
     its collective opinion on the Lavell case in its 
     
     sixty-six page reply to the White Paper, the third 
     
     such reply since the Department’s publication. 
     
    
     Brieﬂy, the Iroqiois position is this: I) that the 
     
     Indian Act itself is not at fault with regard to whatever 
     
     problems the Indian population has, but rather ad- 
     
     ministrators of the legislation have been less than 
     
     adequate; and 2) that education systems in which 
     
     Indian children are taught should be on or close 
     
     to reserves, that the curricula reﬂect Indian values 
     
     where possible, and that Indian parents should be 
     
     involved in chasing teaching staff. 
     
    
     Regarding the Lavell case and‘its reperéussions, 
     
     Nina Burnham, also a member of the Association, 
     
     stated that the decision by the Court of Appeals 
     
     poses more problems for the children of such' 
     
     marriages (Indians to non-Indians) than it solves. 
     
     The Act, according to the Association, should be 
     
     revised so that individual band councils can decide 
     
     their own membership, an important point to con-I 
     
     sider in that Indian customs among“ different cultural 
     
     groups often had radically different ideas on thei 
     
     status ofIndian/non-Indian marriages. . ~ i 
     
    
     Thunder Bay area Ojibwasi' for example, according 
     
     to one archeologist, created” two totally new clans; 
     
     for non-Indian males who married Indian females,; 
     
     and their children were invested with these clan 
     
     titles; this in itself was against legislation which 
     
     occurred later. . - 
     
    
     The Association also wants to see payments to» 
     
     those who voluntarily give up their Indian statusf 
     
    
     taken out of federal funds, not capital funds of in- :' 
     
    
     dividual bands, which, Miss Burnham stated, “should . 
     
     be kept intact for posterity”. Presently,- anyone who 
     
    
     chooses to enfranchise is entitled to receive “one . 
     
     per capita share of the capital and revenue moneys” 
     
    
     held for the band, and what his share would have 
     
    
     been for the next tWenty years (15, la and b), and 
     
    
     that lands to which he held title, cease to be reserve . 
     
     lands (110,3). Earlier franchisements- under present 
     
    
     legislation have dealt crippling blows to band funds, 
     
    
     and children of enfranchised adults have been, in 
     
    
     Miss Burnham’s words, “made to suffer by parents 
     
    
     becoming enfranchised”. "In these cases, it can_ 
     
     truthfully be said that their inheritance was sold. 
     
     for a ‘mess of pottage’” (presumably referring 
     
     to cases in which capital funds proved to be, ac- ’ 
     
     cording to treaty wording, little more than token 
     
    
     payments. ' 
     
    
     the electronic and print media for the sub-. 
     
     column space donated to CARE during the year, 
     
    
     however, have been unusually heavy with earth 
     
    
     Bengal by year's end, a 
     
     CARE's-experienced staff 
     
     the past 20 years. 
     
     continue to support its 
     
    
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     Indian Affairs Minister Jean Cur-etien was present. 
     
    
     .at the meeting, and concurred with the Association’s 
     
    
     mood of disquiet over the Lavell case, stating further 
     
    
     - that he hoped that the decision wduld be appealed. 
     
    
     He added that the Department would be willing to, 
     
     help any group that wished to launch an appeal._ 
     
     . “Perhaps this should be corrected and provision 
     
     made for such children so enfranchised to be allowed 
     
     to apply for reinstatement into the membership 
     
    
     of the band, subject to band council approval.” 
     
    
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