Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - December 19, 1978, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free december 15 nation indians threaten to dig up entire cemetery Ottawa up an in Dian group now wants to dig up an entire no Indian instead of just the remains of sir John to protest the desecration of Indian burial grounds by Well go to Kingston to symbolically dig up Mac Alex Leader of a loosely knit organization called nations of said but while were doing others will be quietly digging up a Pioneer Ceme Tery in the group will then pitch a Large White tent and Dis play the remains in their Indian he last the group threatened to dig up the remains of Macdonald but realized that will be impossible because of increased surveillance and a Cement they plan to make the dig this Aki Wenzie said the group is trying to raise the level of consciousness of indians and no indians we want them to under stand they Are playing with our spirits when they dig up our burial he we want them to leave us no Indian cemeteries Are protected by provincial legislation making it an of Fence to dig up remains without permission and supervision by a local Coro Indian burial grounds Are not protected by Legisla the problem facing authorities is their Loca prison building review urged Ottawa up All fed eral prison construction should be halted until a Public review has been car ried out into How Money has been spent so far and what the alternatives to building new cells the moratorium committee on prison construction said the committee told a news conference that Solic Ito general Jeanjacques Blais was wrong last week when he announced a re Vised program he said would save million in construction actual saving would be Mil lion and it would Cost 000 a the committee said com Mittee spokesman Dennis the revised program is much different from one announced a year the Federal prison sys tem is a Conly to expand the disaster is a big the original plan involved building 21 new prisons by 1984 at a Cost of four older prisons King and British co Lumbia new Westminster would have been closed when the new ones net increase in cell capacity would have been the program announced last week by Blais involves building nine new renovating and expanding nine and closing Conly net in crease in cell space would be instead of closing King Ston oldest in the the Canadian correctional service now planned to spend Mil lion rebuilding the moratorium commit tee was formed last Spring by civil liberties groups in Ontario and All but one of the six new prisons still to be built three have been opened this year would be opened in Ridings held by Liberal it was morally repugnant Conly to justify prison construction on the basis of Job they Are often uncovered by construction Crews or archaeologists who notify the local once it is determined the remains Are they Are usually sent to Aki Wenzie and fellow member Douglas Pine recently completed a walk from to to Ronto to protest Highway construction that would Cut through part of a year old burial site in they met Ontario resource minis and received no Satis they Brunelle has since cancelled a pro posed meeting for Aki Wenzie he said the walk from Windsor attracted a lot of attention and protest groups were formed in More than 15 commune the nations of warriors was formed last year after the two indians left the Mil Litant american Indian movement aim Over its involvement in International last year the Regis Indian band near Morris won a Battle for the return of remains of 16 mohawks taken by the National museum of Man in an archaeological dig near the classified in the free press see Coupon on Page 42 Jay Mart foods Rush i at store opening wednesday for those top prices in effect Whilo quantities last or til Storo closing december we Reserve the right to limit personal shopping use your Bay account card Stock up on Christmas f i s fresh turkeys Canada Grade Young average 1016 not fro Maple Leaf sliced Side Bacon pure pork sausage 1 Ca i Iwa 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