Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - September 3, 1981, Winnipeg, Manitoba Indian woman pleased by uns support of cause apr Fecto up Sandra to veloce mid yesterday she is pleased by i United nations committees Deci Sion recognising her status As an Indian after marrying a but she acknowledged in an inter View the decision int binding on the Canadian government and May make Little difference in her crusade to be restored to full native rights on the Robique the in human rights committee ruled yesterday in Geneva that a violated a in human rights treaty in refusing Lovelace the right to live on her tribal Reserve after marrying a whom she later the committee said Canadian which deprives women of Indian status if they marry nov indians while letting men retain their could also be considered a violation of the treaty because it makes the distinction on the basis of the Canadian government told the committee an average of 510 Indian women marry no indians every year in Lovelace took her Case to the Canad an human rights commission a couple of years ago and the commission ruled in her she then petitioned the in committee to investigate her i am glad about the but that Doest mean we Indian women who marry no indians Are going to get our status Lovelace said in an now that they made that nation f hopefully we will get it Back right away and not we want it done right she claimed the Federal government knew for 10 years that the Indian act discriminated against but said it was up to band councils to pressure the government into making 1 Hope they Federal officials dont another 10 the Indian leaders dont represent Indian women at the political level or at the National they never so Why would they do anything if there was no pressure put on them a said that with her current status she cannot vote in band Council elections or own land on 1 do i was like a woman without a i want the government to demolish that discrimination right away and to reinstate All the former band members who have lost their the Canadian government also told the in committee it was planning new Law under which Indian women like Lovelace could be registered As indians and no one would tie deprived of Lovelace said she now will ask Indian affairs minister John Munro whether the government will take action on the Wittici Peg free september probe dispels fears threat of hell scares children at Camp Mother in court Dunia accused of dropping her baby son into Waters above Niagara Falls is taken into court in Niagara yesterday for a bail of was ordered kept in custody pending a hearing next Toronto up charges that georgian Bay summer Camp terrorized children by telling them they would bum in hell for listening to Rock music Are says a spokesman for the childrens Aid society of metropolitan Yvonne Crittenden said an investigation tuesday found no problem with Camp attended yearly by and she expects children in the society care will continue to be sent the Issue arose when Derek broke out in a fever two Days after re turning from the located at about Kilometres North of his Mother said he told her he thought he was about to die and satan would take his the boy and other children said they had been told at the Camp to destroy All their Rock albums or risk burning in the warning came after the slaying of a tape at the Camp by a Philadelphia evangelical group that purports to show the real message of Many Rock groups is Crittenden said society officials have not made on thespot inquiries about the but have relied on to Ronto officials experience with the our preliminary investigation didst Point to any problem with this particular nothing reported by our voluntary supervisors appeared to substantiate the kinds of concerns expressed by this child and his David a member of the Camps Board of said tacks experience was an he said the trouble could have occurred because of an overzealous attitude by one Camp counsellor to the evils of Rock Joel chief of adolescent psychiatry at the Clarke Institute of psychiatry in said tack prob ably has not suffered any lasting dam age from his for most threatening them with hell fire would have Little nent t Devilish dangers Camp counsellors interviewed tues Day showed concern about the Devilish dangers of Arnie of who used to play in a Rock said popular heavy Metal band which has released an album entitled Highway to say they want to take the kids to my whole life was Rock n t was the kids were killing All the counsellors were trying to he was Tell the dont kill Camp director David Bowen said the main goal of the nondenominational Christian Camp is to give needy Chil Dren and a Bridge of when that they will re Spond to the love of Kyal trusts new guaranteed investment account is better it pays the same High interest As our 30 Day guaranteed invest ment because its an you dont have the inconvenience of renewing it each open your guaranteed investment account at the begin Ning of any with a mini mum Deposit of from then on 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