Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - June 16, 2001, Winnipeg, Manitoba A16 Winmorn Junt 2001 Reserve scoured for doctor by Louise Elliott As a doctor working in suicide ravaged Michael Monture knew death All too but Community members said yester Day they did not believe the six nations doctor who has been missing since the Early hours of thursday was Bonniejean who Speaks for the band Council in this impoverished Community 300 Kilometres Northeast of said the 42yearold doctor was preoccupied with the deplorable conditions at Pikangikum the night before he it was not a personal said who shared dinner with the Doc Tor on wednesday probably the last time the doctor was it was a political stance he was Tak he could not believe what he the with its ramshackle hous dirty water joblessness and closed has been the Flash Point for a Battle in recent weeks Between native leaders and the Federal before native my lamented his Peoples plight at Issue is financial sovereignty in the troubled Community of Stan the grand chief of Nish naw Bezaski the political organization that represents Northern Ontario says he believes fury Over the governments appointment of an Indian agent to take control of Pikangikum also played a role in the mans a fou Page note describing the Hope less conditions Monture had encountered was found in his packed Luggage thursday he was noticed missing when a nurse knocked at about 4 on the door of his room adjacent to the medical station seeking help for a his bed was the bag had been packed for a when the dedicated physician did not appear for his patients at a scheduled morning members of the Community grew worried and searched his who have mounted a full scale air and ground search of a 25square Kilometre area of the dense Bush sur rounding have taken pos session of the and said the likelihood of finding Monture was grow ing but Muir said the doctors her husband and other family members who have flown to the Reserve had not Given up they Are expecting they Are going to find she a Mohawk from the six nations Reserve near the Southern Ontario Community of is Only one of two dozen native doctors in All of having accomplished what Many oth ers could he has worked in Ontario North and has witnessed firsthand the plight of some of the poorest and most troubled reserves in the those who know him have described the doctor As highly intelligent and Philo he made a decision to Dedi Cate a Good part his career to the people of moving to the tiny North Western Ontario town of Sioux Lookout so that he could Fly in to offer medical treatment to the Community once or twice a his note did not mention but some Community members who read it said its contents made them fear for his the note is a final sort of Beardy said yesterday in a Telephone interview from Thunder he Felt that the government was not doing enough in the whats happening with the doctor is directly tied to the struggle in the Canadian press you drive the Deal no charge Power Sunroof 2001 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