A2 - Wednesday, March 2, 1983 - North Shore News

strictly personal

by Bob Hunter

ALTHOUGH REX WEYLER’S book Blood Of
The Land is written mainly from an American

viewpoint, there are a lot of names mentioned
that will be familiar to Canadian readers.

The author documents the
heavy-handed tactics em-
ployed by the Quebec
government to push through
its James Bay power
development, which flooded
the homes of some 9,000
Cree and Inuit Indians,
leaving them with only one-
half of one per cent of their

molybdenum mine at Alice
Arm that made the strongest
impression. The way in
which federal officials
skated around the fierce
opposition of the Nishga
people who fish in those
waters is laid out for all to
see.

Without actually coming

anadian ‘Romans’

someone in Canada should
be asking if this really goes
on!

In all, Blood Of The Land
is a bleak-and bloody tale
that every thinking Canadian
should read, just so, when
we look in the mirror, we
know what manner of
creature we really are. To
the native people, we are the
Romans.

But there is much more to
this book than a documenta-
tion of the crimes of the

Original lands.

Weyler touches on the
mercury poisoning of the
Ojibway people of Ontario
by discharges from _ the
Dryden Chemical Company
plant upriver from the White
Dog and Grassy Narrows
reserves.

He explains the reasons
behind the 1975 roadblock
of B.C. Highway 12 by ar-
med members of the
Bonaparte Indian band. He
goes into the details of the
dumping of toxic mill tailings
into Lake Athabasca by
Eldorado Nuclear during the

time that Senator Jack
Austin’s famous uranium
cartel was operating.

But to me it was the
section dealing with the

shocking story of the

dumping of radioactive

wastes from the Amax
e

the dog

can cost
you in
W. Van

Walking the dog in certain
arca of West Vancouver can
lead to fines and even court
summonses, the bylaw
enforcement sectton of West
Vancouver Police advises

Special Const. John
Laurenson tndicated that the
{wo major areas of concern
are Ambleside Park and the
seawall.

“Most of the people think
that the bylaw 1s only in
cffect during the summer
months,” says Laurcnson.
“and the funny thing 1s that
most of the violators arc
from North Vancouver.” he
adds

The fine, incidentally for
walking your dog oin-oa
prohibitted arca ts $10.00 If
your dog ts at large in West
Van and isn’t licensed. the
fine is $40 00) Tf he's lucky
cnough to have a licence and
isatiharge, (he fine ts $20 00

For further taformation
regarding prohibited arcas in
West Vancouver, the public
in advised to call the bylaw
section at 922 4141 loc 217

out and saying it, Weyler
makes it clear that
Canadians have no right to
feel smug when we look at
America’s track record of
more than 200 broken
treaties with the Indians
since the first occupation of
this continent by Europeans.

Weyler specifically ac-
cuses our Department of
Indian Affairs of collabor-
ating with the U.S. Bureau of
Indian Affairs to strip native
people of their remaining
territorial claims, so that
mineral resources (mainly
uranium) can be exploited
by multinational  corpor-
ations.

Goitig further, Weyler
says that in some cases,
Canadian prisons parole
Indians who promise to work
in uranium mines — a form
of virtual slave labor. Surely

in ag with rebound axercisa,

‘BELT UP’ is the
message of RCMP
officers pictured
Stopping traffic from
both directions on
Lonsdale in one of the
seatbelt checks which

“star-spangled archipelago,”
as Weyler calls it. In the end,
his best effort is his expres-
sion of the Indian vision of
life.

Weyler writes that
Hopi possess a_ set of
Spiritual instructions
predating known history,
going back through three
entire world cycles. Ours,
the “Fourth World”, began
with Mayan culture around
the year 3113 B.C.

In 1948, the 17 Hopi tribes
assembled for the first time
anybody could remember
and compared the
prophecies contained in
petroglyphic tablets that had
been handed down through
the generations.

The tablets foresaw the
arrival of missionaries
bearing crosses, horse-
drawn wagons,  horseless

the

_ Burns almost dauble the.calories uaed
#_ running or awienmiing fo iri
' font io

“Be We have a ig .
* seléction of peer

Les pemoomesdy

CANADA'S LARGEST
SELECTION OF REBOUNDERS

AND TRAMPOLINES

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ORME MAME EECTAAT A LUEAEE AG a tbat,

vee
its

are becoming a routine
sight on the North Shore
these days.

carriages, “cobwebs in the
sky” (jet trails?) and an
earthshaking upheaval
triggered by the appearance
of both the swastika and the
rising sun.

The ancient Hopi
predicted that a house of
glass would be built where
the world’s people would
meet. All they await now is
the building of a “house in
the sky” (space station?)
before the Fourth Wor
comes to an end, either in an

apocalypse that destroys
even the Hopi, or the dawn
of a Golden Age.

Heady stuff. A good book.

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