Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - July 28, 1995, Winnipeg, Manitoba Brian Cole 6977044 focus Winnipeg free press a 7 july i a Good Job turn off the water Ive been a resident living near Osborne Village for the past 20 the water Fountain recently built on the Corner of Osborne Street and Stra Brook Avenue is a Mon you cant get a bus without get Ting your feet and later in the evening the bums Are Busy playing cards there and they have the temporary toilet for their this is to beautify Osborne Vil Lage Copsey Winnipeg Border dispute riles tourists this letter is in reference to the couple banned from Canada for the Possession of after a month free july we didst know anything about this incident until we read about it in the grand Forks to say we were shocked is an understate we met the Edge tons while fish ing at Rocky about 10 years our family has been travelling to Rocky Lake for three but maybe we should advise our fourth generation to find a vacation spot in the United what happened to the Edge tons was totally uncalled for and we wont be satisfied until we hear from them that they have received a Public fines and that the Canada Cus Toms people involved in this Inci Dent have been severely our Bor Der is supposed to be the Friend Liest in the lets keep it that Maryland Dennis Borgen Langdon big brother and Safe lighters big brother strikes again Cana Dian governments Are possessed by a never ending Zeal to protect people from governments have control Over the distribution of alcoholic Bev they use our taxes in protecting Canadian Content on television like the beachcombers to save us from losing our Ridenti they take away Peoples Chil Dren if they feel that parents Are not performing to government decreed and now the Federal government has made it illegal to sell no childproof cigarette just in Case we leave our lighters and toddlers at Home without a Babysitter and they Start a whats next maybe we ought to ban just in Case we Burn to make it really maybe we should just set up a country wide Playpen and let the govern ment be our Alison Anderson Winnipeg housing program destroys Industry with reference to the article new housing construction remains weak in Manitoba free july i guess we see Here another indication of the pigeons coming Home to Twentyfive years ago the province set up the bureaucracy to intervene in the residential rental the private sector residential housing Industry has diminished Ever until now when it is almost we have the situation today where the Manitoba housing and renewal is managing approximately rental their vacancy i have is 25 to 30 per simply the bureaucratic incursion into the rental Market has decimated both the rental hous ing Industry and the new housing what we have left in the private sector Are Only High equity players and struggling As members of the apartment investors association of we observe the situation and Strug Gle with the dream in Hopes that one Day common sense will come Back to Clark Winnipeg school taxes too High now that you have paid your property taxes for take out your statement and Check the num you will notice that two to the editor the free press welcomes letters from letters must be signed and should include a clearly printed address and Telephone names will be published but not All letters maybe edited for style and Short letters Are less Likely to be please address letters to letters to the Winnipeg free 1355 Mountain Winnipeg r2x letters can be sent to our fax number letters May be submitted through the internet at . Letters sent via the internet obviously cannot be but must include Home address and Telephone thirds of your total Bill is for one item Only school now you might ask yourself am i getting value for my Money when it takes twice As much to educate your children As it does to provide police and fire garbage pick up Are our children exceptionally Well educated i think i believe teachers Are paid a very Good salary but i believe the prob Lem of financing education stems from the administrative Bureau Cracy that has been developed Over the in most cases the bureaucrats sole purpose in life is preserving the Large salaries they Are it is the Empire builders of past working with what was thought of As a bottomless Well of that have created today it would be interesting to see a report of the various school districts different Levels of administration and showing the numbers and equivalent prepared by someone not involved and having a conflict of Victoria Beach thanks for a Short time ago free press reporter Bud Robertson did a Fea Ture article on the Beautiful Plains county court building in the Council of the town of Neep Awa has asked me to extend thanks to Robertson and the free press for producing an excellent article about the building and the Robertson and his staff conducted themselves in a courteous manner while touring the building with Vivian who is one of the local once thanks for the Arti Ken Jenkins Neepawa Bird kill wont save fish after Reading the article Bird killing part of War free july i was left with a sense of helplessness and anger knowing this massacre happened right in our the Freshwater fish marketing spokesman disagrees with our scientists and studies that state there is no evidence of Birds dam aging the commercial water dams and Over fishing certainly must play a but lets blame the this corporation should shoulder some of the blame by not inform ing its fishermen of the results of these further let it be known that 35 to 45 million pounds of fish per year Are thrown away to rot arid waste because of this same corporations inept Market All this right in our Kim Sigurdson Winnipeg Hospital lineup tests patience health care where is it headed on july a Friend of mine saw a doctor after suffering some dizzy spells and feeling three tests were including one for a brain my Friend but was then advised the brain scan could not be done until july 20 because All technicians were either away or off on holidays and no one knew when the results would be think about the mental anguish a person is put through knowing they Are sick but not knowing what it you hear of horror stories but never really know the that is Why i where is health care headed Winnipeg Mashantucket Pequot tribe runs Fox Wood Casino and guarantees to pay million in taxes to indians in a catch22 situation casinos raising sovereignty Issue byte Giago Indian country today a Sovereign nation is Sovereign for several Rea in the Case of the Indian nations of it is a concept most White people find hard to understand and even harder to arguments against tribal sovereignty usually Are based on the fact that most tribes still receive Federal subsidies through the various agencies of the government to maintain housing and the antagonists believe this negates Sovereign status for Indian most tribes and i will use most quite often Here because All the 500 tribes of the lower 48 states and Alaska reached Dif Ferent accords with the government signed treaties on a government government rights in Exchange for millions of hectares of most treaties gave the tribes a unique relationship with the govern the treaties guaranteed certain inalienable rights to the health care and a government govern ment relationship were often included in the the Indian nations accepted As Golden the words and deeds of the government while surren Dering millions of hectares to land hungry some tribes were forcibly relocated in what can Only be described As death what is now the state of okla homa was once known Only As Indian some 37 Indi an tribes were moved there from places As far away As Florida and Alabama others the Southern Cheyenne from As far away As in other instances tribes retained Large portions of their homelands while surrendering huge chunks by treaty agree the Lakota and Dakota Sioux were fortunate to keep Large portions of one Rea son this occurred is because the Sioux were so numerous and such ferocious fighters it would have been a near impossibility to move them to tribes were supervised by the War department for Many this duty eventually fell to the Interior through the Bureau of Indian i write this Brief overview to bring up certain contemporary happenings that have placed the Issue of sovereignty on the front the major Challenge to Indian sovereignty has come to the forefront because of the influx of gaming casinos on Indian in and of the inherent right of tribes to open Gam ing establishments should not be in the United states did not set up countless hurdles and Laws to obstruct Casino gambling in new Jersey or these states were considered Sovereign just like the Indian the Creed of most Indian nations in contemporary Ameri Ca of late has been let us do it from a status of near welfare some Indi an tribes have become quite it would be huge mis take to believe this is True of All Indian tribes because most Indi an nations Are isolated and not capable of drawing huge crowds to their casinos if they even have not Long ago the largest tribe in the Navajo voted Down Casino probably Only five per cent of All Indian tribes have profitable Casino contemporary problems have Arisen because of sudden wealth of some in an Effort to retain Power Power much sought after because of the huge revenues generated by some casinos there Are cer Tain Indian tribes that have totally ignored their own constr in chairman Stanley Crooks of the Shakopee has enlisted friends and rela Many of them Nonini As tribal thereby assuring them of per capita payments in excess of per this of guarantees that these newly but tribal members will continue to cast their votes to keep Crooks in in the some of the truly traditional members of the tribe have been Dis enrolled or barred from voting in the tribal this disenfranchised bloc of indians has taken its Case to the Bureau of Indian the department of the and to Federal crops has covered his behind by appointing his own tribal lawyers to sit As tribal thereby Assur ing his followers that any Chal Lenge to his authority will go no further than his own Kangaroo this is where issues of tribal sovereignty become sharply if a nation is truly it should have the right to deter mine the outcome of its own internal but if that Sovereign entity becomes Cor where do the dissenters go for Justice if they turn to the Bia or the Federal they Are under mining the very Independence so Many tribes have fought to attain Over the past 100 Many tribal members then find themselves in a catch22 Situa adding to this problem is the fact that so Many tribal leaders have just been standing around and admiring those successful gaming tribes without question ing some of the things they Are doing that reflect badly upon All Indian a classic example is the Mashantucket Pequot tribe of Connecticut and its famous Fox Wood the Mashantucket were Only recently recognized As a tribe by the Federal govern one of the first accomplishments of this new tribe was negotiating for a it was almost As if they sought Federal recognition because that is where the Money was to be without consulting the other Indian tribes of the Mashantucket signed a compact with the state of Connecticut and guaranteed to pay Mil lion in annual taxes for the exclusive rights to Casino Type gaming in the this set a bad precedent for the More established tribes of for All intents and the Mashantucket Casino manag Mickey a rules the tribe with an Iron their elected skip spends much of his time in the More traditional tribes of America sit on their hands and allow this to cocktail waitresses at the Fox Wood Casino cavort about in fake Buckskin min dresses and Wear head bands with Chicken feathers protruding from the backs of their Heads an obvious insult to All tribes who hold the Eagle Feather sacred and tradition Al tribal leaders say its As if they Are afraid to speak out for fear of antagonizing such a wealthy Tim Giago is editor chief and publisher of Indian country a National weekly news paper on american Indian doonesbury Mike 70 by Garry Trudeau wnbi6h 1mhavingtdo much Ive ;