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The Rusk Cherokeean (Rusk, Tex.), Vol. 99, No. 34, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 2, 1947 Page: 1 of 6
This newspaper is part of the collection entitled: Texas Digital Newspaper Program and was provided to The Portal to Texas History by the Singletary Memorial Library.
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The Rusk Cherokeean
Established as "The Pioneer" July 5, 1848
^Cherokee County
Still Very Much
In Oil News
Maydelle Well
p Reported To
Be ♦Promising
Cherokee county still holds the
■^Spotlight in new oil developments
with a promising showing report-
ed at the Standard of Texas No.
1 New Birmingham. It was re-
sported here that some additional
cementing was being done follow-'
ing temperature tests at differ-
,^ht levels.
Pipe is set at 10,012 feet and it
is believed that the Travis Peak
at 9,822.32 feet which had an oil
yjhow will get the first test. The
w!ell is considered a certain gasser
ii) two Rodessa zones.
! According to speculation in
<"<pusk the oil test will be made
over the weekend.
In x,Hc Wise pool area, work has
started on Clark & Cowden No. 1-
f Southern Pine Newton Survey,
southeast diagonal offset to the
J Wise & Delta discovery". Exact
site is 330 feet out of NWC of
£-6 of W-80 of N-12 acres of the(
•'i26-acre survey. On the north-
J end, Allied Oil No. 1 Wilcox,
Jordan survey, remains shut in
i*or gauging with operators esti-
mating the well good for 500 bar-
re is daily through half inch choke
from 5,108 feet.
# Work is also starting on the
long-planned Travis Peak explora-
tion work up by A1 Brown, Kil-
gore, for the Ponta area where
^jist summer he obtained a farni-
oujfc from Sun. The well will be
, drilled as Delta & Brown No. 1
Frances (Lester, and contract calls
^or 10,000 or 250 feet into the
Travis Peak. Delta will move rig
from the Standard of Kansas test
in Houston County. Site is in the
Renter of the N-40 of W-80 of a
250-tract, P. H. Russell survey.
Pure is assisting.
Radio Entertainers
Coming Thursday
■i The Bailes Brothers and their
^ntire group of radio entertainers
will appear in person Thursday
night, January 9, at the high
school auditorium, it has been an-
nounced by the Rusk chaptet
of FFA, sponsors of the program.
The group comes from West
Virginia and are not only music-
als and singers but song com-
posers as well. The complete an-
fnoflncement of the program, which
starts at seven-thirty, appears
jjlsewhere in this issue.
Holiday Lull
Affects Market
Holiday dullness held both trade
and offerings of southwest farm
products at low levels during
Christmas week, reports the Pro-
duction and Marketing Adminis-
tration. Price trends were strong
on cotton and most livestock,
slightly lower on eggs and grains,
very weak on citrus, and about-
steady for other products.
Important factor in continued
strength on cotton is the compar-
atively small supply in this coun-
try although world supplies of
foreign cottons are record high.
Sales in ten designated markets
totaled 103,334 bales compared
with 208,800 in the previous week
and 66,200 a year ago. Friday's
spot prices for middling 15-1''5
inch were 33.10 cents a pound in
Dallas, 33.05 New Orleans.
Wools went through one of the
quietest periods of the year as
most mills preferred to withhold
purchases until after inventories
are taken. Only small weight of
revalued wools sold. Fair sales of
the lower grades of mohair
brought improved prices.
Fresh fruit and vegetable inter-
est centered on citrus, with grow-
er prices very1 weak and move-
ment draggy. Ve-etable demand
was slow to fair, and prices
changed little. South Texas ship-
ping season on tomatoes and pep-
pers is about over, but beets, cab-
bage and carrots are increasing.
Friday's prices F. O. B Lower
Rio Grande Valley shipping points
were mostly $2 per half crate ioi
beets, $1 per 50-pound sack for
Slippery Roads
Block Highways
Sidewalk Spills
Supply Fun But
No Injuries
Slippery roads, streets and
sidewalks caused much inconven-
ience and some difficulties Wed-
nesday with several roads neai
Rusk blocked for varying periods
but no serious accidents were re-
It required about double time
for the Sparkman dairy to com-
plete deliveries Wednesday morn-
ing. In order to travel with any
degree of satisfaction it was found
necessary to load the milk truck
with about double the usual load
over the rear wheels.
Where traffic was heavy the
ice was soon broken up in the low-
er places but remained dangerous
at higher points along the high-
ways until late in the afternoon.
Numerous sidewalk spills were
taken by Rusk people including
'the editor who was proceeding
north from the courthouse when a
half second later he found his
head pointing to .vard thp post of-
fice and his feet toward the old,
jail. The usual quick look around
for spectators was encouraging
but he had just gotten well into a
nonchalant stride when M r s.
Vernie Minter emerged from the
hotel to call to him that she was
qualified as a material witness.
District Attorney
Jt W. SUMMERS
County Attorney
domestic round-type cabbage, and j —— ——
$2.25 per crate for bunched car-1 'Jq Open Dental
rots—all extra for top icing. Spin- _ _
ach in the Winter-Garden area Office In Rusk
Dr. Ghas. M. Pearce, Jr., has
announced that he will assume the
office and practice of Dr. Geo. P.
Francis about January 6, doitjg
general dentistry.
Dr. Pea ce, who is married and
has two daughters, is a 1944 grad-
uate of Baylor Dental College, of
Dallas. He received his discharge
from the U. S. Army in Novem-
Lt. Cmdr. and Mrs. Joe Wil-
liams of Jacksonville, Florida
spent Christmas in Rusk in the
M. E. McCord home.
Pvt. Raymon (Hardy of Lowry
Field, Denver, Colorado spent the
holidays here with homefolks.
Capt. A. R. Allen of San An-
tonio spent the holidays in Rusk.
S-Sgt and Mrs. Leon C. Walker
and baby of Fort Worth spent
the holidays with his mother, Mrs.
Ollie Walker.
Aviation Scholarship
For A. & M. College
.'MELVIN SESSIONS, wTio steps
( jfUt of public office after twenty-
£ two years in the courthouse, is
j. ready to go fishing with anybody
who will dig the worms, he told
Uie Cherokeean Wednesday. Ho
Completes ten years as county
clerk which was preceded by
twelve years as a deputy in the
effice. He has no definite plans
for the future except that he ex-
pects to go to work at something.
But first he intends to take a
month or two to do as he pleases.
|te was not a candidate for re-
Only once has the former coun-
official given the Cherokeean
brmisuion to use his picture.
Dhat was as a public official. At
a private citizen it is used here
without permission.
brought $1 per bushel. Other j
st uthwest shipments in carload
loj,s included sweet potatoes from
Louisiana and Texas, spinach
from Oklahoma, onions and pota-
toes from Colorado.
Peanuts held steady despite
slow demand. With the crushing
season about over, southwest
mills reported only scattered re-
ceipts from Texas and Oklahoma.
Buyers of shelled peanuts filled
itnmediate needs with most users
iHoliday dullness had little ef-
fect on rice prices. Most mills
closed until after January 1, and
growers held firmly to remain-
ing supplies for rough rice
Wheat, sorghums, oats and corn,
on the other hand, eased under
slack demand for fairly large of-
Only, scattered cars of prairie
h^y moved from southwest Kan-
sas. Southeast Oklahoma growers
reported no carlot shipments, but
sold some trucklots at barns for
$20 a ton. Limited offerings of al-
falfa brought fairly steady prices.
A let-up in demand following | The Tcxas A & M College has
the holiday weekend egg market, j received a gjft 0f $io,000 from
Current receipts on Frida} ^ North American Aviation
brought 87 to *#0^ cents a dozen ^ Qnnlpany Foundation at Dallas,
in Dallas, 40 to 42 Foit Worth. . ^ establishment of 9 North
and 36 to 38 Denver. Interest American Foundation Scholarship
shifted from turkeys to chic ens, pun(^ jncome f10m which will
and fair receipts of hens an ly | ^ awarded annually to a grad-
ers found good demand at steady
Seasonally |'ve-t(K'< graduate work in aeronautical en-
ceipts kept the trend steady to
strong except for some weakness
on cattle. Early week gains on ^ coin is called its
hogs were maintained to the close obv(?rse gjde
at Texas points, but were partial- j
ly lost in Oklahoma City, Denver |
and Wichita, although all mar- '
kets closed $1 tb $1.50 higher than
a week earlier. On Friday, good j
and choice medium weights were j,
quoted at $21.50 per hundred
pounds in Ft. Worth. $21 in San
Antonio, $21.75 Oklahoma City,
$21.75 to $22 Denver, and $21.35
to $21.60 Wichita. About the only
changes in southwest sheep and
lambs were in Denver and Wich- :
ita where gains of 25 to 50 cents
were reported. Cattle prices had
weak spots on steers, cows and
bulls in San Antonio, cows and
stockers at Ft. Worth, steers and
heifers in Denver, and on stockers
and feeders in Wichita. These
were offset to some extent by
strength on calves at Tcxas mar-
kets and unevenly higher prices
on all classes at Oklahoma City. C. L. LANGSTON, former Coun-
' ty Superintendent of Schools, will
Banks of New York City were be associated with a Dallas pub-
the first in the United States to liBhing houRe. He will sell school
student in engineering who
needs financial assistance to do
County Superintendent
County Clerk
Five veterans of World War II
will be seen about the courthouse
during the coming year. They rep-
resent the new officials elected
in the 1946 election. But the only
new woman official got the jump
011 them by several weeks. Mrs.
Ila Pearson, County Treasurer
elect, was appointed several weeks
ago to fill the unexpired term of
Mrs. Ernest Williams, resigned.
J. W. Summers, County Attorney,
resigned the position to enter the
Funeral services were held at
two-thirty Wednesday afternoon
at Sardis church for Silas Monroe
Bell, 81, who died Monday. He was
an active member of the Sardis
Baptist church.
He is survived by his wife Mar-
tha Bell and nine children: Etta
Mae Bowman of Rusk; Clifton
Bell of Rusk; Martin Bell of
Wells; Pauline Welch of Browns-
ville; Leonard Bell of Houston;
Silas Monroe Bell, Jr., of Overton;
Edgar Bell, Rethei Bell, Hamon
Bell, all of Rusk; and also by four
Funeral service was conducted
by Rev. J. M. Schwitter with Wal-
lace Undertakers in charge of ar-
rangements. Burial was in Sardis
Jefferson's portrait appears on
the two-dollar bill.
District Clerk
Lion Members Make
New Resolutions
l/>vidual New Year's Resolu-
tions were made by each member
of the Lions club in their weekly
luncheon meet Thursday noon.
O. M. Walker, co-ordinator of
(yherokee County * Vocational
schools for Veterans, was inducted
as a new member.
President Lester announced that
the Board of Directors meeting
would take place next Thursday
immediately following the lunch-
eon in lieu of a program
Frank Summers reported slow
progress in the advancement of
the local scouting movement and
appealed to the club as individual;
to help get the scout troop going.
Applause is the spur of notaje
minds; the end and aim of weak
use the clearing house System.
1 supplies.
ALEX BLACK, former District
Clerk, says he favors fishing and
letting his wife do the work, but
admits he will help at the varie'y
and light hardware store recent
ly acquired in Jacksonville, and
devote more time to the East Tex-
as Real Estate Service in which he
will retain partnership with A. S.
Moore. He will continue to live in
MORRIS W. HASSELL, County
Attorney for the past four years,
will open a law office in Rusk
within the next. week. He will be
located on the second floor of the
Eidson building.
Final Rites Held For
Dr. E. M. Moseley
A note of sadness tempered
New Year spirits Wednesday as
Rusk paid last respects to Dr. E.
M. Moseley, 73, who died Wednes-
day morning at his home in Rusk
after an extended illness. Born in
Cherokee county, the son of the
late Elijah and Rose Moseley, he
had lived here all his life, prac-
ticing medicine in and in the vi-
cinity of Rusk for about fifty
Dr. Moseley studied medicine at
the State Medical School at Gal-
veston and finished at Barnes
j Medical College, St. Louis. His
| early practice was in the horse
I and saddle days, and it was by
j this means of travel that he ad-
| ministered to the sick and suf-
J fering. Later this gave way to the
more convenient horse and buggy,
which was later to make room for
his modern automobile.
Dr. Moseley served as County
Health Officer of Rusk for f->rty
years; was a member of county
and state medical associations and
was a past president of the Cher-
okee County and State Medical
Associations. He was a membei-of
the board during World War I and
was later chairman of the district
board. But important as those
honors were, they meant less to
him than his record of never hav-
ing lost a mother at childbirth in
all his fifty years of practice.
The funeral service was held at
the Moseley home at three o'clock
Wednesday afternoon with the
Rev. A. Grady Hallonquist con-
ducting and Wallace Undertakers
in charge of arrangements. Bur-
ial was in the Moseley cemetery
near Rusk. He was a member of
the Methodist church.
He is survived by two sisters,
Mrs. W. E. Bolton and Mrs. Jim
Bothwell; two brothers, Dr. J. H.
Moseley and Mi ton-v
of Rusk.
Active palbearers were H. B.
Odom, Melvin Sessions, W. M.
Vining, T. W. Fisher, J. C. Wil-
liams, Claud Elliott, G. B. Chap-
man, Leo W. Tosh and Frank
Snellings. Honorary pallbearers
were Watters Singletary, Newton
Long, John Holcomb, D. C. Mc-
Laughlin, Chas. Chapman, E. R.
Gregg, A. M. Jordan, and Dr. W.
H. Sory, Dr. R. T. Travis, Dr. J.
M. Travis, Dr. L. L. Travis, Dr.
McDougal and Dr. Boyd of Jack-
sonville; Dr. T. H. Cobble and Dr.
J. F. Johnson, of Rusk and Dr. W.
A. McDonald, of Alto.
District Attorney
Kiwanis Speaker
District Attorney Ward R.
Burke was the guest speaker at
the regular Kiwanis luncheon
Tuesday noon. iHe talked on mili-
tary law and explained the dif-
ferences between it and civil law.
Mr. Burke served as a Judge Ad-
vocate in World War II, an office
comparable to the office of Dis-
trict Attorney.
He expressed the beiief that
military law is in need of revision
as is now being advocated and
favored allowing enlisted men to
serve. He pointed out that it is
too often the case that there are
officers with legal training to de-
fend the rights of men on trial.
Funeral services were held at
two o'clock Monday afternoon, at
Jacksonville, for Eddie Clarence
Barker, 58, \vho died Friday after-
noon of a heart attack while on
duty at Rusk State Hospital. He
had been employed at the hospital
for the past two and one-half
He was a member of the Galla-
tin Church of Christ. The funeral
service was conducted by H. 1.
Taylor, Minister of that church,
and burial was made in Jarratt
cemetery. A Jacksonville under-
taker was in charge of arrange-
Survivors include his wife, Mrs.
Stella Barker; four sons, John T.
Barker and Truman Barker, both
of Gallatin, Lavern Barker ot
Turney, and Corp. Howard Bark-
er, who is with the Armed Forces
in Italy; twx> daughters, Mrs. Zel-
ma Masters of Gallatin, and Miss
C. Barker of Rusk, also an em-
ployee of the State hospital; three
brothers, two sisters,, and four
County Officials
Are All Sworn In
Wednes. Morning
Slippery Roads
Delay Proceedings
Hour And A Half
All Che rokee county officials
were sworn in in brief ceremonies
in the county courtroom shortly
before noon Wednesday morning.
The session was scheduled to start
at ten o'clock in the morning, but
owing to the slippery condition of
the roads it was necessary to de-
lay proceedings until eleven-thirty
to allow all commissioners to
reach Rusk.
Retiring County Clerk Melvin
Sessions administered the oath of
office to County Judge James I.
Perkins, who in turn swore in
County C'"ik Elect Harold Miller.
The new county clerk then admin-
istered the oath to all officials
w{io had r.ot previously been
sworn ia before Notaries Public.
All olficials had supplied the re-
quired bond before the adminis-
tration of the oaths.
County Judge James I. Perkirw^
in a statement preceding the of-
ficial action, expressed his apprec-
iation to al! officers for their co-
operation with special tribute to
County Clerk Melvin Sessions* wljo
had rounded out twenty-two years
of service in that office.
Cherokeean Changes
Number Of Columns
Just in case you had not noticed
the Cherokeean this week has sev-
en columns instead of six as am
been the rule for several yeari.
The change was made to the staafc-
dard two-inch column in order to
conserve newsprint. j£ 1L.
This enables the pajvr. - 3)$
printing nearer the edge, tft ptiat
seven columns on a newsprint o&-
ly an inch wider than thaft f
erly used for six columns. tHK Wp
tra columns thus provided siimdd
make it possible to carry a larger
proportion of news matter than
has been possible in reeeafc
months. In many instances it wift
eliminate the necessity of piafr
ing ten or more pages, thus «£•
fecting a considerable saving la
1 he change-over required %
great deal of work in changing
equipment and type setting. K
was planned, by taking advantage
of the holiday and soliciting qo
advertising to hold the paper to
four pages this week to give mor*
time to the change-over. Ho'wev-
er, this failed to work and a six-
pagj compromise was the result.
The editor has always contend-
ed that the reader is more inter,
ested in what is between the col-
umn rules than how far they are
apart and with that in mind every
possible effort will be made to
continue to improve the paper.
The cotton census report issued'
by Clyde C. Tidwell, reveals that
there were 807 bales of cotton
ginned in Cherokee county prior
to December 13 as compared to
1,051 bales ginned to the same
date in 19 !5.
E. B. LEWIS, former District At-
torney, will devote full time to Hie
law practice. He will continue to
be the Rusk member of the law
firm of Chaatiler & Lewis which
maintains an office in Ja
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The modern NBA is defined by principles of pace and space, forever altered by a series of rule changes; an emphasis on reducing physical contact on the perimeter, and the legalization of zones designed to discourage the isolation-oriented offenses that had stagnated the game.
Though the changes eventually worked, culminating in the crowning of the small ball Golden State Warriors last June, it took several seasons after their implementation for the NBA to fully evolve.
Along with those changes, there are two coaches whose work helped usher the NBA into this modern era. Mike D'Antoni is the obvious first choice. His Seven Seconds or Less Phoenix Suns were nothing short of revolutionary for their use of smaller lineups, fastbreaks and delayed transition, and the spread pick and roll.
The second coach responsible for the state of modern NBA offenses, surprisingly, is Tom Thibodeau.
Thibodeau's defenses with the Boston Celtics and Chicago Bulls were the first to truly take advantage of legalized zone defenses, utilizing zone principles in man-to-man schemes to force the ball to one side of the court where moment was strangled and the defense could lock in.
This preseason, the Chicago Bulls have been a strange sight. While innovative defensively, Thibodeau was behind the curve in constructing offenses and playing rotations—resulting in his termination. With new coach Fred Hoiberg roaming the sidelines, it's odd to now see the Bulls running the type of offense created to counter Thibodeau's defenses.
As much philosophy as schematics, the premise is simple—get the ball up the court as quickly as possible, allowing the offense to run more actions within the framework of a 24-second shot clock and keep the ball moving side to side.
Stale pick and rolls have been replaced by seemingly impromptu dribble handoffs, giving defenses less time or warning to form a wall at the point of attack. Drag screens occupy defenders attention before defenses can set, creating quick-hitters and opportunities for Pau Gasol to duck in for easy post opportunities.
Though they've faced some preseason struggles, the Bulls have shown promising signs. Entire sets look like three-man weave drills, and the Bulls have found easier avenues of offense to supplement and amplify the individual talents of Gasol and Jimmy Butler.
Doug McDermott finally resembles the player the team expected when they traded up into the draft to select him, while the early play of rookie Bobby Portis infuses fresh athleticism and spacing into a frontcourt in dire need of both.
This will be a process, and as such, will take some time. After all, the modern NBA wasn't built in a day. The Chicago Bulls have been good for quite some time, but now they appear to have life once more.


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Harper Launches Major First Nations Termination Plan: As Negotiating Tables Legitimize Canada's Colonialism
By Russell Diabo On September 4th the Harper government clearly signaled its intention to: 1) Focus all its efforts to assimilate First Nations into the existing federal and provincial orders of government of Canada; 2) Terminate the constitutionally protected and internationally recognized Inherent, Aboriginal and Treaty rights of First Nations.
Special points of interest:
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Termination in this context means the ending of First Nations pre-existing sovereign status through federal coercion of First Nations into Land Claims and Self-Government Final Agreements that convert First Nations into municipalities, their reserves into fee simple lands and extinguishment of their Inherent, Aboriginal and Treaty Rights. To do this the Harper government announced three new policy measures:
Smudging Ceremony at Crown-First Nations Gathering, Jan. 24, 2012, in Ottawa. (Photo courtesy of Chris Wattie, Reuters)
A "results based" approach to negotiating Modern Treaties and SelfGovernment Agreements. This is an assessment process of 93 negotiation tables across Canada to determine who will and who won't agree to terminate Inherent, Aboriginal and Treaty rights under the terms of Canada's Comprehensive Claims and Self-Government policies. For those tables who won't agree, negotiations will end as the federal government withdraws from the table and takes funding with them. First Nation regional and national political organizations will have their core funding cut and capped. For regional First Nation political organizations the core funding will be capped at $500,000 annually. For some regional organizations this will result in a funding cut of $1 million or more annually. This will restrict the ability of Chiefs and Executives of Provincial Territorial Organization's to organize and/or advocate for First Nations rights and interests. First Nation Band and Tribal Council funding for advisory services will be eliminated over the next two years further crippling the ability of Chiefs and Councils and Tribal Council executives to analyze and assess the impacts of federal and provincial policies and legislation on Inherent, Aboriginal and Treaty rights.
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These three new policy measures are on top of the following unilateral federal legislation the Harper government is imposing over First Nations:
Bill C-27: First Nations Financial Transparency Act Bill C-45: Jobs and Growth Act, 2012 [Omnibus Bill includes Indian Act amendments regarding voting on-reserve lands surrenders/
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John Duncan, federal Minister of Aboriginal Affairs.
Bill S-2: Family Homes on Reserves and Matrimonial Interests or Rights Act Bill S-6: First Nations Elections Act Bill S-8: Safe Drinking Water for First Nations Bill C-428: Indian Act Amendment and Replacement Act [Private Conservative MP's Bill, but supported by Harper government]
Then there are the Senate Public Bills:
"Of course "modern" in Conservative terms means assimilation of First Nations by termination of their collective rights and offloading federal responsibilities onto the First Nations themselves and the provinces"
Bill S-207: An Act to amend the Interpretation Act (non derogation of aboriginal and treaty rights) Bill S-212: First Nations Self-Government Recognition Bill
The Harper government's Bills listed above are designed to undermine the collective rights of First Nations by focusing on individual rights. This is the "modern legislative framework" the Conservatives promised in 2006. The 2006 Conservative Platform promised to: Replace the Indian Act (and related legislation) with a modern legislative framework which provides for the devolution of full legal and democratic responsibility to aboriginal Canadians for their own affairs within the Constitution, including the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. Of course "modern" in Conservative terms means assimilation of First Nations by termination of their collective rights and off-loading federal responsibilities onto the First Nations themselves and the provinces. One Bill that hasn't been introduced into Parliament yet, but is still expected, is the First Nations' Private Ownership Act (FNPOA). This private property concept for Indian Reserves—which has been peddled by the likes of Tom Flanagan and tax proponent and former Kamloops Chief Manny Jules—is also a core plank of the Harper government's 2006 electoral platform. The 2006 Conservative Aboriginal Platform promised that if elected a Harper government would: Support the development of individual property ownership on reserves, to encourage lending for private housing and businesses. The long-term goals set out in the Harper government's policy and legislative initiatives listed above are not new; they are at least as old as the Indian Act and were articulated in the federal 1969 White Paper on Indian Policy, which set out a plan to terminate Indian rights as the time.
Previous Termination Plans: 1969 White Paper & Buffalo Jump of 1980's
The objectives of the 1969 White Paper on Indian Policy were to:
Cover of 1969 White Paper on Indian Policy.
Assimilate First Nations. Remove legislative recognition. Neutralize constitutional status.
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Impose taxation. Encourage provincial encroachment. Eliminate Reserve lands & extinguish Aboriginal Title. Economically underdevelop communities. Dismantle Treaties.
Jean Chretien, federal Minister of Indian Affairs introduced 1969 White Paper on Indian Policy.
As First Nations galvanized across Canada to fight the Trudeau Liberal government's proposed 1969 termination policy the federal government was forced to consider a strategy on how to calm the Indian storm of protest. In a memo dated April 1, 1970, David Munro, an Assistant Deputy Minister of Indian Affairs on Indian Consultation and Negotiations, advised his political masters Jean Chrétien and Pierre Trudeau, as follows: . . . in our definition of objectives and goals, not only as they appear in formal documents, but also as stated or even implied in informal memoranda, draft planning papers, or causal conversation. We must stop talking about having the objective or goal of phasing out in five years. . . We can still believe with just as much strength and sincerity that the [White Paper] policies we propose are the right ones. . . The final [White Paper] proposal, which is for the elimination of special status in legislation, must be relegated far into the future. . . my conclusion is that we need not change the [White Paper] policy content, but we should put varying degrees of emphasis on its several components and we should try to discuss it in terms of its components rather than as a whole. . . we should adopt somewhat different tactics in relation to [the White Paper] policy, but that we should not depart from its essential content. (Emphasis added) In the early 1970's, the Trudeau Liberal government did back down publicly on implementing the 1969 White Paper on Indian Policy, but as we can see from Mr. Munro's advice the federal bureaucracy changed the timeline from five years to a long-term implementation of the 1969 White Paper objectives of assimilation/termination. In the mid-1980's the Mulroney Conservative government resurrected the elements of the 1969 White Paper on Indian Policy, through a Cabinet memo. In 1985, a secret federal Cabinet submission was leaked to the media by a DIAND employee. The Report was nicknamed the "Buffalo Jump of the 1980's" by another federal official. The nickname referred to the effect of the recommendations in the secret Cabinet document, which if adopted, would lead Status Indians to a cultural death -- hence the metaphor. The Buffalo Jump Report proposed a management approach for First Nations policy and programs, which had the following intent:
"the federal bureaucracy changed the timeline from five years to a long-term implementation of the 1969 White Paper objectives of assimilation/ termination"
Limiting & eventually terminating the federal trust obligations; Reducing federal expenditures for First Nations, under funding programs, and prohibiting deficit financing; Shifting responsibility and costs for First Nations services to provinces and "advanced bands" through co-management, tri-partite, and community selfgovernment agreements;
Buffalo Jump
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"Downsizing" of the Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development (DIAND) through a devolution of program administration to "advanced bands" and transfer of programs to other federal departments; Negotiating municipal community self-government agreements with First Nations which would result in the First Nation government giving up their Constitutional status as a sovereign government and becoming a municipality subject to provincial or territorial laws; Extinguishing aboriginal title and rights in exchange for fee simple title under provincial or territorial law while giving the province or territory underlying title to First Nations lands.
"for the last twenty years, the federal government— whether Liberal or Conservative —has continued to develop policies and legislation based upon the White Paper/Buffalo Jump objectives"
The Mulroney government's "Buffalo Jump" plan was temporarily derailed due the 1990 "Oka Crisis". Mulroney responded to the "Oka Crisis" with his "Four Pillars" of Native Policy:
Accelerating the settlement of land claims; Improving the economic and social conditions on Reserves; Strengthening the relationships between Aboriginal Peoples and governments; Examining the concerns of Canada's Aboriginal Peoples in contemporary Canadian life.
In 1991, Prime Minister Brian Mulroney also announced the establishment of a Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples, which began its work later that year; the establishment of an Indian Claims Commission to review Specific Claims; the establishment of a BC Task Force on Claims, which would form the basis for the BC Treaty Commission Process. In 1992, Aboriginal organizations and the federal government agreed, as part of the 1992 Charlottetown Accord, on amendments to the Constitution Act, 1982 that would have included recognition of the inherent right of self-government for Aboriginal people. For the first time, Aboriginal organizations had been full participants in the talks; however, the Accord was rejected in a national referendum. With the failure of Canadian constitutional reform in 1992, for the last twenty years, the federal government—whether Liberal or Conservative—has continued to develop policies and legislation based upon the White Paper/Buffalo Jump objectives and many First Nations have regrettably agreed to compromise their constitutional/international rights by negotiating under Canada's termination policies.
Canada's Termination Policies Legitimized by Negotiation Tables
It has been thirty years since Aboriginal and Treaty rights have been "recognized and affirmed" in section 35 of Canada's constitution. Why hasn't the constitutional protection for First Nations' Inherent, Aboriginal and Treaty rights been implemented on the ground? One answer to this question is, following the failure of the First Ministers' Conferences on Aboriginal Matters in the 1980's, many First Nations agreed to compromise their section 35 Inherent, Aboriginal and Treaty rights by entering into or negotiating Modern Treaties and/or Self-government Agreements under Canada's unilateral negotiation terms. These Modern Treaties and Self-Government Agreements not only contribute to emptying out section 35 of Canada's constitution of any significant legal, political or economic meaning. Final settlement agreements are then used as precedents against other First Nations' who are negotiating. Moreover, Canada's Land Claims and Self-Government policies are far below the international standards set out in the Articles of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of
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Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP). Canada publicly endorsed the UNDRIP in November 2010, but obviously Canada's interpretation of the UNDRIP is different than that of most First Nations, considering their unilateral legislation and policy approach. Canada's voted against UNDRIP on Sept. 13, 2007, stating that the UNDRIP was inconsistent with Canada's domestic policies, especially the Articles dealing with Indigenous Peoples' Self-Determination, Land Rights and Free, Prior Informed Consent. Canada's position on UNDRIP now is that they can interpret it as they please, although the principles in UNDRIP form part of international not domestic law. The federal strategy is to maintain the Indian Act (with amendments) as the main federal law to control and manage First Nations. The only way out of the Indian Act for First Nations is to negotiate an agreement under Canada's one-sided Land Claims and/or SelfGovernment policies. These Land Claims/Self-Government Agreements all require the termination of Indigenous rights for some land, cash and delegated jurisdiction under the existing federal and provincial orders of government. Canada has deemed that it will not recognize the pre-existing sovereignty of First Nations or allow for a distinct First Nations order of government based upon section 35 of Canada's constitution. Through blackmail, bribery or force, Canada is using the poverty of First Nations to obtain concessions from First Nations who want out of the Indian Act by way of Land Claims/SelfGovernment Agreements. All of these Agreements conform to Canada's interpretation of section 35 of Canada's constitution, which is to legally, politically and economically convert First Nations into what are essentially ethnic municipalities. The first groups in Canada who have agreed to compromise their section 35 Inherent and Aboriginal rights through Modern Treaties have created an organization called the Land Claims Agreement Coalition. The Coalition Members are:
Council of Yukon First Nations (representing 9 land claim organizations in the Yukon) Grand Council of the Crees (Eeyou Istchee) Gwich'in Tribal Council Inuvialuit Regional Corporation Kwanlin Dun First Nation Maa-nulth First Nations Makivik Corporation Naskapi Nation of Kawawachikamach Nisga'a Nation Nunavut Tunngavik Inc. Nunatsiavut Government Sahtu Secretariat Inc. Tlicho Government Tsawwassen First Nation Vuntut Gwitchin First Nation
"Through blackmail, bribery or force, Canada is using the poverty of First Nations to obtain concessions from First Nations who want out of the Indian Act by way of Land Claims/SelfGovernment Agreements"
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The Land Claims Agreement Coalition Members came together because the federal government wasn't properly implementing any of their Modern Treaties. So the Coalition essentially became a lobby group to collectively pressure the federal government to respect their Modern Treaties. According to Members of the Coalition Modern Treaty implementation problems persist today. The fact that Canada has already broken the Modern Treaties shouldn't inspire confidence for those First Nations who are already lined up at Canada's Comprehensive Claims and Self-Government negotiation tables. According to the federal Department of Aboriginal Affairs there are 93 Modern Treaty and/or Self-Government negotiation tables across Canada [http://www.aadncaandc.gc.ca/eng/1346782327802/1346782485058].
"All of these Modern Treaties have resulted in extinguishing Aboriginal Title, converting reserve lands into fee simple, removing tax exemptions, converting bands into municipalities, among other impacts on Inherent and Aboriginal rights"
Those First Nations who are negotiating at these 93 tables are being used by the federal government (and the provinces/Territories) to legitimize its Comprehensive Claims and Self-Government policies, which are based upon extinguishment of Aboriginal Title and termination of Inherent, Aboriginal and Treaty rights. The First Nations who have been refusing to negotiate and are resisting the federal Comprehensive Claims and Self-Government negotiating policies are routinely ignored by the federal government and kept under control and managed through the Indian Act (with amendments). Attempts by non-negotiating First Nations to reform the federal Comprehensive Claims and Self-Government policies aren't taken seriously by the federal government because there are so many First Nations who have already compromised their Inherent, Aboriginal and Treaty rights by agreeing to negotiate under the terms and funding conditions of these Comprehensive Claims and Self-Government policies. For example, following the 1997 Supreme Court of Canada Delgamuukw decision, which recognized that Aboriginal Title exists in Canada, the Assembly of First Nations tried to reform the Comprehensive Claims policy to be consistent with the Supreme Court of Canada Delgamuukw decision. However, the then Minister of Indian Affairs, Robert Nault on December 22, 2000, wrote a letter addressed to then Chief Arthur Manuel that essentially said why should the federal government change the Comprehensive Claims policy if First Nations are prepared to negotiate under it as it is? A fair question: why do First Nations remain at negotiation tables that ultimately lead to the termination of their peoples Inherent and Aboriginal rights, especially since it appears that Modern Treaties are routinely broken after they are signed by the federal government? Many of these negotiations are in British Columbia where despite the past twenty years of negotiations the B.C. Treaty process has produced two small Modern Treaties, Tsawwassan and Maa'Nulth. The Nisga'a Treaty was concluded in 2000, outside of the B.C. Treaty process. All of these Modern Treaties have resulted in extinguishing Aboriginal Title, converting reserve lands into fee simple, removing tax exemptions, converting bands into municipalities, among other impacts on Inherent and Aboriginal rights.
The Harper Government's Termination Plan
Aside from the unilateral legislation being imposed, or the funding cuts and caps to First Nation's and their political organizations, the September 4, 2012, announcement of a "results based" approach to Modern Treaties and Self-Government negotiations amounts to a "take it or leave it" declaration on the part of the Harper government to the negotiating First Nations.
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Canada's Comprehensive Claims Policy requires First Nations to borrow money from the federal government to negotiate their "land claims". According to the federal government: To date, the total of outstanding loans to Aboriginal groups from Canada to support their participation in negotiations is $711 million. This represents a significant financial liability for the Aboriginal community. In addition, the government of Canada provides $60 million in grants and contributions to Aboriginal groups every year for negotiations. It is Canada's policies that forced First Nations to borrow money to negotiate their "claims", so the "financial liability" was a policy measure designed by the federal government to pressure First Nations into settling their "claims" faster. As the federal government puts it, the Comprehensive Claims negotiation process has instead "spawned a negotiation industry that has no incentive to reach agreement." This accumulated debt of $711 million along with the $60 million annual in grants and contributions have compromised those negotiating First Nations and their leaders to the point that they are unable or unwilling to seriously confront the Harper government's termination plan. Over 50% of the Comprehensive Claims are located in B.C. and the First Nations Summit represents the negotiating First Nations in B.C., although some negotiating First Nations have now joined the Union of B.C. Indian Chiefs (UBCIC), thus blurring the historic distinctions between to two political organizations. The latter organization previously vigorously opposed the B.C. Treaty process, but now the UBCIC remains largely silent about it. These two main political organizations -- the First Nations Summit and the UBCIC -have now joined together into the B.C. First Nations Leadership Council, further blending the rights and interests of their respective member communities together, not taking into account whether they are in or out of the B.C. Treaty process. This may partially explain why the Chiefs who are not in the B.C. Treaty process also remain largely silent about the Harper government's "results based' approach to Modern Treaties and Self-Government negotiations. First Nations in British Columbia are failing to capitalize on that fact, that since the Delgamuukw Decision, the governments have to list unresolved land claims and litigation as a contingent liability. Such liabilities can affect Canada's sovereign credit rating and provincial credit ratings. To counter this outstanding liability, Canada points to the British Columbia Treaty Process as the avenue how they are dealing with this liability, pointing to the fact that First Nations are borrowing substantive amounts to negotiate with the governments. Another recent example of how disconnected B.C. First Nations and their organizations are on international versus domestic policy and law, is the First Nations' outcry over the recent Canada-China Treaty. The B.C. Chiefs and their organizations are publicly denouncing the Canada-China Foreign Investment Promotion and Protection Agreement as adversely impacting on Aboriginal Title and Rights, yet they say or do nothing about Harper's accelerated termination plan. It seems the negotiating First Nations are more worried about the Canada-China Treaty blocking a future land claims deal under the B.C. Treaty process. The Chiefs and their organizations at the B.C. Treaty process negotiation tables have had twenty years to negotiate the "recognition and affirmation" of Aboriginal Title and Rights, but this continues to be impossible under Canada's policies aiming at the extinguishment of collective rights. As a result only two extinguishment Treaties have resulted from the
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"the First Nations Summit and the UBCIC -- have now joined together into the B.C. First Nations Leadership Council, further blending the rights and interests of their respective member communities together, not taking into account whether they are in or out of the B.C. Treaty process"
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process. Even Sophie Pierre, Chair of the B.C. Treaty Commission has said "If we can't do it, it's about time we faced the obvious - I guess we don't have it, so shut her down". By most accounts the twenty year old B.C. Treaty process has been a failure. It has served the governments' purpose of countering their contingent liabilities regarding Indigenous land rights. Yet it seems the negotiating First Nations are so compromised by their federal loans and dependent on the negotiations funding stream that they are unable or unwilling to withdraw from the tables en masse and make real on the demand that the Harper government reform its Comprehensive Claims and Self-Government policies to be consistent with the Articles of the UNDRIP. The same can also be said for the negotiating First Nations in the Ontario, Quebec and Atlantic regions. The Chiefs who are not in the B.C., Quebec or Atlantic negotiating processes have not responded much, if at all, to Harper's "results based" approach to Modern Treaties and SelfGovernment. The non-negotiating Chiefs seem to be more interested in managing programs and services issues than their Aboriginal Title and Rights. As one federal official put it, the Chiefs are involved in the elements of the 1969 White Paper on Indian Policy like economic and social development while ignoring the main White Paper objective— termination of First Nations legal status.
Sophie Pierre, Chair, B.C. Treaty Commission
"it seems the negotiating First Nations are so compromised by their federal loans and dependent on the negotiations funding stream that they are unable or unwilling to withdraw from the tables en masse and make real on the demand that the Harper government reform its Comprehensive Claims and SelfGovernment policies"
Given their silence over the Harper government's "results based" "take it or leave it" negotiations approach, it seems many of the negotiating First Nations at the Comprehensive Claims and/or Self-Government tables are still contemplating concluding Agreements under Canada's termination policies. This can only lead to further division among First Nations across Canada as more First Nations compromise their constitutional and international rights by consenting to final settlement agreements under the terms and conditions of Canada's termination policies, while undermining the political positions of the non-negotiating First Nations. In the meantime, Harper's government will continue pawning off Indigenous lands and resources in the midst of a financial crisis though free trade and foreign investment protection agreements, which will secure foreign corporate access to lands and resources and undermine Indigenous Rights. Some First Nation leaders and members have criticised AFN National Chief Shawn Atleo for agreeing to a joint approach with the Harper government, including the Crown-First Nations Gathering (CFNG), but to be fair, the Chiefs across Canada did nothing to pressure Prime Minister Harper going into the CFNG. Instead, many Chiefs used the occasion as a photo op posing with the Prime Minister. The negotiating First Nations who are in joint processes with Canada seem to be collectively heading to the cliff of the "Buffalo Jump" as they enter termination agreements with Canada emptying out section 35 in the process. Much of the criticism of AFN National Chief Atleo has come from the Prairie Treaty Chiefs. Interestingly, if one looks at the federal chart of the 93 negotiation tables [http:// www.aadnc-aandc.gc.ca/eng/1346782327802/1346782485058] not too many First Nations from historic Treaty areas are involved in the Self-Government tables, except for the Ontario region where the Union of Ontario Indians and Nisnawbe-Aski Nation are negotiating Self-Government agreements. As a result of the September 4, 2012 announcements regarding changes to Modern Treaties and Self-Government negotiations, cuts and caps to funding First Nations political or-
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ganizations and unilateral legislation initiatives, it is obvious that Prime Minister Harper has tricked the AFN National Chief and First Nations by showing that the CFNG "outcomes" were largely meaningless. One commitment that Prime Minister Harper made at the CFNG—which he will probably keep—Is making a progress report in January 2013. The Prime Minister will probably announce the progress being made with all of the negotiating tables across Canada, along with his legislative initiatives. It appears First Nations are at the proverbial "end of the trail" as the Chiefs seem to be either co-opted or afraid to challenge the Harper government. Most grassroots peoples aren't even fully informed about the dangerous situation facing them and their future generations. The only way to counter the Harper government is to:
have all negotiating First Nations suspend their talks; and organize coordinated National Days of Action to register First Nations opposition to the Harper government's termination plan; Demand Canada suspend all First Nations legislation in Parliament, cease introducing new Bills and Change Canada's Land Claims and Self-Government Policies to "recognize and affirm" the Inherent, Aboriginal and Treaty Rights of First Nations, including respect and implementation of the Historic Treaties.
If there is no organized protest and resistance to the Harper government's termination plan, First Nations should accept their place at the bottom of all social, cultural and economic indicators in Canada, just buy into Harper's jobs and economic action plan—and be quiet about their rights.
Editorial Cartoon
"If there is no organized protest and resistance to the Harper government's termination plan, First Nations should accept their place at the bottom of all social, cultural and economic indicators in Canada, just buy into Harper's jobs and economic action plan— and be quiet about their rights"
Editorial cartoon courtesy of Ross Montour, Kahnawake Mohawk
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Department of Aboriginal Affairs & Northern Development Canada - Powerpoint Presentation
Results Based Approach to Canada's Participation in Treaty and Self-Government Negotiations Engagement Process
New Approach Overview
"The goal of the engagement process is to have frank discussions with Canada's negotiating partners (Aboriginal groups and provincial/ territorial governments) regarding progress at the tables"
This material provides a general overview of the results-based approach to Canada's participation in treaty and self-government negotiations and the objectives of the engagement process, but is not intended to identify or address table-specific negotiation issues
What is the new approach?
Canada is working towards implementing a new approach to accelerate progress on treaty and self-government negotiations and effectively addressing s.35 rights claims Based on three pillars: Results-Based Negotiations to Achieve Results with Partners: focus resources and efforts on negotiating tables with the greatest potential to conclude agreements in a timely way within existing federal mandates Promoting More Effective Use of Other Tools to Address Aboriginal Rights and Promote Economic Development and Self-Sufficiency: improving access to other tools and options outside the negotiation process that address Aboriginal rights and promote economic development and self-sufficiency Speeding Up Federal Mandating Processes: improving the federal approval and reporting processes
What are we engaging on?
The goal of the engagement process is to have frank discussions with Canada's negotiating partners (Aboriginal groups and provincial/territorial governments) regarding progress at the tables After seeking the views and input from its negotiating partners during the engagement process, Canada will be conducting an internal assessment of tables
These discussions will include:
Do Aboriginal and Provincial/Territorial parties support an agreement that is consistent with the principles of the federal policies for the negotiation of a comprehensive land claim or self-government agreement (i.e. federal core elements)? Do the parties share a common vision for resolution? Can the agreement be achieved in a timely manner?
What are we engaging on?
The following slides are some examples of federal core elements in treaty and self-
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government negotiations
While the slides do provide examples of some federal core elements, they are not exclusive There are other elements not listed that are integral for Canada in concluding an agreement The parties' position with respect to the federal core elements will form part of Canada's assessments of the tables
AANDC Headquarters
Examples of Federal Core Elements
Treaties must provide finality and certainty with respect to an Aboriginal group's claimed Aboriginal rights, as well as clarity with respect to Aboriginal, federal and provincial/territorial jurisdictions and responsibilities A treaty must provide a comprehensive picture comprised of: the precise and exhaustive articulation of the s.35 rights that the Aboriginal group may be able to exercise post-treaty; the full and final settlement of claims to Aboriginal rights including the elimination of any contingent Crown liability for past infringement of Aboriginal rights; and provisions to manage legal risks in the event that the certainty technique is interpreted by the courts in a manner not intended by the parties
Land that will be involved in any treaty or self-government agreement must be clearly identified, and the Aboriginal group's rights and responsibilities with respect to the land must be clearly set out in the agreement Land held in fee simple by the Aboriginal group post effective date of the treaty will not be lands reserved for Indians within the meaning of s.91(24) of the Constitution Act, 1867 nor "reserves" as defined in the Indian Act Depending on where the land claim is situated, federal and provincial land management regimes in place must be respected in the agreement
"Land held in fee simple by the Aboriginal group post effective date of the treaty will not be lands reserved for Indians within the meaning of s.91(24) of the Constitution Act, 1867 nor "reserves" as defined in the Indian Act"
The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms applies to all Aboriginal governments and institutions in relation to matters within their respective jurisdictions and authorities Aboriginal governments and institutions exercising the inherent right of selfgovernment will operate within the framework of the Canadian Constitution Aboriginal governments and institutions must be fully accountable to their members or clients for all decisions made and actions taken in the exercise of their jurisdictions or authority It is essential that Canada retain its exclusive law-making authority in matters of national interest, including: Powers related to Canadian sovereignty, defence and external relations Management and regulation of the national economy
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Maintenance of national law and order and substantive criminal law Protected of the health and safety of all Canadians Federal undertakings and others powers Scope and content of Aboriginal laws must be clearly defined and the relationship between federal, provincial/territorial and Aboriginal laws (priority of laws) must be set out in the treaty or self-government agreement
Funding Framework: Self-government funding is a shared responsibility and will be determined using a formula-based approach, including own source revenue components Aboriginal Mandate and Representation: Canada requires that individuals negotiating on behalf of Aboriginal groups be duly mandated and that this requirement be satisfied by evidence of the Aboriginal community's knowledge and support throughout the negotiation process Ratification: Canada requires clear and adequate evidence that the negotiated agreement is acceptable and that the members of the Aboriginal group have given consent to the agreement
"Selfgovernment funding is a shared responsibility and will be determined using a formula-based approach, including own source revenue components"
Outcomes What happens after the engagement?
1. 2. Following the engagement process, Canada will use information gathered to inform internal review of the tables Possible outcomes could include: Expediting negotiations As this is a results-based approach to negotiations: Canada will introduce multi-year negotiation plans where there is sufficient common ground These plans will ensure that all parties share the same goals and objectives over the next years in terms of reaching milestones and ultimately concluding an agreementin-principle or a final agreement Federal mandates for reaching these milestones will be time limited On an annual basis, Canada will review annual and multi-year plans in order to reconfirm federal participation at the table Possible outcomes could also include: Reducing federal participation Suspending tables or disengaging from tables, following an orderly process For tables where participation is reduced, table is suspended or where disengagement is proposed, Canada could consider alternative measures for managing Aboriginal rights Negotiation tables should be advised of the outcome in spring 2013
3. 4.
[EDITOR'S NOTE: This text is reprinted from a powerpoint deck prepared by the Federal Department of Aboriginal Affairs & Northern Development, further to a Sept, 4, 2012 AANDC Press Release]
Page 13 ALERT: THE CANADA - CHINA FOREIGN INVESTMENT PROMOTION AND PROTECTION AGREEMENT (FIPA) THREATENS INDIGENOUS RIGHTS
Canada has negotiated a Foreign Investment Promotion and Protection Agreement (FIPA) with China, which was finalized in September 2012. It has the Government of Canada and the Government of the People's Republic of China as parties and states as its purpose the "Promotion and Reciprocal Protection of Investments". The agreement applies to all measures adopted by the Government of Canada relating to investments, and all entities that exercise any regulatory, administrative or other governmental authority delegated to it. It accords most-favoured nation treatment and national treatment to Chinese investors; and prohibits expropriation of Chinese investments in Canada, which are defined very broadly. Most-favored nation treatment mean Canada cannot treat China and its investors less favourably than those from other countries, while national treatment means Canada cannot treat its own investors, including the economic ventures of Indigenous Peoples, more favourably than those of China. The agreement includes Part C - on settlement of investment disputes which allows investors from China to bring a claim for breach of an obligation under the agreement against Canada. The claim will be dealt with by way of arbitration, which can result in large settlement awards, and serve as a disincentive to impose regulations and negotiate honourably with First Nations. Prime Minister Harper has already signed off on the FIPA with China, which is now in the ratification process. It has been submitted to parliament, where it has to be tabled for 21sitting days, before steps can be taken to bring it into force, a time period that will expire by the end of October 2012. The FIPA will enter into force after the exchange of diplomatic notes between Canada and China; it cannot be terminated for 15 years and even if Canada gets out at that time, after termination FIPA's rules would continue to apply to existing Chinese investments for another 15 years.
FIPA does not directly reference Aboriginal and Treaty Rights, borrowing instead the limited provisions from the Canada-Peru Free Trade Agreement in which Canada "reserves the right to adopt or maintain any measure denying investors from the other party, service providers and their investments, any rights or preferences provided to Aboriginal Peoples." These reservations do not protect against claims of expropriation under the FIPA protections, which investment panels have interpreted very broadly. The language in the FIPA clearly aims to provide increased free access to indigenous lands and resources for Chinese investors (which is in effect a subsidy to them, an argument Indigenous Peoples from British Columbia have been the first to make before international trade tribunals). The Supreme Court of Canada has set out tests to ensure that Aboriginal Title and Rights are not violated and unjustifiably infringed. In response to Canada's business as usual approach it has developed requirements for consultation and accommodation of Indigenous Peoples in regard to developments and decisions that could negatively impact Aboriginal Title and Rights. Yet the government of Canada did not even engage in any consultation with Indigenous Peoples in Canada regarding the proposed FIPA with China. Furthermore, international legal standards and principles foresee that Indigenous Peoples have to provide their prior informed consent to: developments proposed to take place on or impact their traditional territories; and to access to their resources. Article 19 of the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP) sets out that: "States shall consult and cooperate in good faith with the indigenous peoples concerned…in order to
"language in the FIPA clearly aims to provide increased free access to indigenous lands and resources for Chinese investors (which is in effect a subsidy to them, an argument Indigenous Peoples from British Columbia have been the first to make before international trade tribunals)"
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obtain their free, prior and informed consent before adopting and implementing legislative or administrative measures that may affect them." China voted in favour of UNDRIP on September 13, 2007, during the vote in the UN General Assembly, Canada has since also endorsed UNDRIP. Rather than taking steps to implement UNDRIP and the constitutional protection for Aboriginal and Treaty Rights, Canada continued its policies that undermine indigenous rights, when entering into the FIPA with China. The FIPA provides greater protection for Chinese investors than for Indigenous Peoples; it applies to all measures adopted by the Government of Canada relating to investments, and all entities that exercise any regulatory, administrative or other governmental authority delegated to it. It could enable Chinese investors to challenge regulations, including to protect the environment and indigenous rights.
"The CanadaChina FIPA could have devastating effects on Indigenous Peoples and Territories. It stated intent is to open the territories up for foreign investment and development. "
The Canada-China FIPA could have devastating effects on Indigenous Peoples and Territories. It stated intent is to open the territories up for foreign investment and development. Indigenous Peoples have long been pushing for more sustainable development and priority resource allocation to Indigenous Peoples, which is also recognized by the Supreme Court of Canada, but could potentially be challenged under the Canada-China FIPA.
This time before the Canada China FIPA comes into force is a critical time to raise awareness among Indigenous Peoples about its potential consequences on Aboriginal and Treaty Rights and to exercise pressure to ensure it is not brought into force. Indigenous Peoples as holders of constitutionally protected rights have standing to challenge the Canada China FIPA. A first potential avenue would be to seek injunctive relief to stop its ratification, due to the potential violation of Aboriginal and Treaty Rights. Another avenue could be a judicial review of the government decision to enter into the FIPA absent consultation with Indigenous Peoples and the potential impacts on Aboriginal Title and Rights. Now is also the time to let Prime Minister Harper know that Canada has not yet dealt with its legal obligations to First Nations regarding the FIPA with China and thus cannot give notice to China that it has done so; nor should Canada proceed with steps to finalize ratification until it has addressed its legal obligations to First Nations.
L to R: Prime Minister Harper with Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao. (Photo by Diego Azubel-PoolGetty Images)
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Canadian Indigenous Leader Sees Potential, Prospects for Cooperation with China
Source: Xinhua Published By Jane B. Hatcher BEIJING, Nov. 4 — There are huge potential and broad prospects for cooperation between the Canadian Indigenous People and China, a Canadian Indigenous leader said on Sunday. "China is a country on the move. It develops in a tremendous degree with a tremendous pace, which is unimaginable for this to happen in Canada," Edward John, grand chief of the First Nations or Canada's Indigenous People, told Xinhua. It's high time for Canada to facilitate ties with China, the world's second largest economy, as the two countries celebrated the 40th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations last year, he said. The Indigenous People should be involved when the Canadian government and business leaders develop relations with China, said John, who has given lectures at Chinese universities on cross-cultural communication. "That's why we come here to tell our stories to the Chinese. That's why we brought here drums and dances featuring our culture," the Indigenous leader said, explaining that cultural understanding and appreciation could connect the peoples of the two countries better than just economic bond. John, who is from Northern British Columbia, also stressed the significance of cross-cultural exchanges, saying it's the best way to protect minorities' rights, sustain their cultures, enhance understanding and decrease prejudices. "Living with differences, which has nothing to do with superiority or inferiority of a culture but with the unique and independent things in it, is a lesson we are yet to learn," he added. He said that the First Nations only had limited communication with China in trade before a devastating earthquake hit China's southwest Sichuan province in 2008. A Canadian indigenous delegation came to Sichuan and donated a totem pole to the ethnic Qiang people as a symbol of respect and healing. "It was a gift from the heart to do two things," John said. "To honor and remember those who lost their lives in the earthquake, and to let the spirits wipe away the tears of the survivors who lost families and relatives." In 2010, then Governor General of Canada Michaelle Jean and John brought the fivemeter pole on a military jet during a state visit to China. The pole, now standing in the new city of Beichuan county, is a celebration of cultures and a "symbolic and generous gesture that is very much appreciated," John quoted Chinese President Hu Jintao as saying when meeting him at that time. "It is important for a community that has experienced so much difficulty to have this support," Hu said. The Canadian Indigenous People have sought to increase trade and economic cooperation with China in recent years, as the Indigenous authorities are facing a pressing task to better their people's livelihood.
"There are huge potential and broad prospects for cooperation between the Canadian Indigenous People and China"
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'Ed John & China' conclusion from page 15
As Chinese investment goes into British Columbia, the First Nations has been working with foundations to develop business plans. "For now we have offices in four Chinese cities, but we want to see an office in every city of China," John said. "I really appreciate China for being supportive when we managed to get the UN to adopt the Declaration on Rights of the Indigenous Peoples in 2007," said John, who was newly appointed North American Representative to the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues. "I am glad to see China has now an increasingly important role in international affairs, and that will help secure world peace and minimize crashes," he said. [Reprinted from The First Perspective Website - http://www.firstperspective.ca/ news/2302-canadian-indiginous-leader-sees-potential-prospects-for-cooperationwith-china]
"For now we have offices in four Chinese cities, but we want to see an office in every city of China"
Dave Porter, CEO, B.C. First Nations Energy & Mining Council in China.
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AANDC Press Release on First Nation Organizations Funding Cuts & Caps
Government of Canada Focuses Funding on Essential Programs and Services for Aboriginal Peoples
Ref. #2-3704 OTTAWA, ONTARIO (September 4, 2012) –The Honourable John Duncan, Minister of Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development, announced today changes to funding for Aboriginal Representative Organizations (AROs) and Tribal Councils. "The Government of Canada is taking concrete steps to create the conditions for healthier, more self-sufficient Aboriginal communities," said Minister Duncan. "To sustain that progress we are changing the funding model for Aboriginal Organizations and Tribal Councils, to make funding more equitable among organizations across the country, and ensure funding is focused on our shared priorities: education, economic development, on-reserve infrastructure, land management and governance programs." The new model will make core funding for AROs more equitable and cap it for regional AROs, while project funding will be directed primarily at initiatives that address priorities such as education and economic development, and that promote healthier, more self-sufficient Aboriginal communities. Tribal Councils will be funded based on several considerations, including the size of the populations they serve, the number of First Nations in their membership, and the range of major programs they deliver. This is the first significant change to the Tribal Council funding program since its launch nearly 30 years ago. The new approach includes a simplified application and reporting process for Tribal Councils which will reduce the reporting burden on organizations. These changes will be introduced over the next two years, allowing organizations time to adapt their operations and, should they desire to, seek out new sources of funding. Over the last six years the Government of Canada has invested in creating the conditions for healthier, more self-sufficient Aboriginal communities. Economic Action Plan 2012 builds on that progress with $275 million in new funding for First Nation education, an additional $330.8 million to build and renovate water infrastructure on reserve and improve water quality for First Nation communities, $27 million to renew the Urban Aboriginal Strategy, and $13.6 million to support Aboriginal consultation on resource development projects. For more information on the new funding approach, please visit: • Backgrounder - Funding for Aboriginal Representative Organizations [http://www.aadncaandc.gc.ca/eng/1346805987011/1346806044261] • Backgrounder - Funding for Tribal Councils and Band Advisory Services [http://www.aadncaandc.gc.ca/eng/1346806096669/1346806137011]
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Letter From AANDC Deputy Minister to First Nation Leaders
DEPUTY MINISTER September 5, 2012
Michael Wernick, Deputy Minister of Aboriginal Affairs & Northern Development Canada
Chiefs and Councils Leaders of Aboriginal Representative Organizations Executive Directors of Tribal Councils
We are taking concrete steps to create the conditions for healthier, more self –sufficient Aboriginal communities. To sustain our progress, we are ensuring that government funding is directed primarily at the delivery of essential services and programs for Aboriginal Peoples.
"the Government of Canada will no longer be providing funding to Tribal Councils for advisory services and funding for Band Advisory Services will be eliminated in 2014-2015"
To that end, we are introducing a new approach to funding for Aboriginal Representative Organizations (AROs) and Tribal Councils. Under the new funding formula, all National and Regional AROs in receipt of core funding in 2012-2013 will have their funding reduced. Effective April 1, 2014, core funding for national Aboriginal Representative Organizations will be reduced by 10%. Regional AROs will receive a 10% reduction or have a ceiling up to $500K applied to their core funding. There will also be gradual reductions in the resources available for proposal-based project funding. Project funding will be more closely aligned with shared priorities: education, economic development, community infrastructure, and other initiatives that promote greater self-sufficiency in Aboriginal communities. For the first time in over 30 years we are changing the Tribal Council funding program. Since many advisory services are now provided by other organizations, the Government of Canada will no longer be providing funding to Tribal Councils for advisory services and funding for Band Advisory Services will be eliminated in 2014-2015. Instead, funding provided to Tribal Councils will be focused on the more effective, efficient delivery of essential programs and services to Aboriginal Peoples and communities. Tribal Councils will continue to receive base funding, with incentives to support increased delivery of Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development programs and services to communities. Overall, our new approach to funding will create greater funding equity among Aboriginal organizations across Canada, and it will streamline reporting requirements for funding recipients. It is also consistent with government-wide efforts to ensure that public funds are being used primarily for the delivery of essential services and programs, and that our operations are streamlined and efficient. We recognize that these measures will require some organizations to adapt their operations. That is why implementation will occur over the next two years, allowing your organization to make any necessary operational changes, as well as to seek out other potential sources of funding should you require it. In the coming days your organization will be contacted by AANDC officials to discuss the changes to the funding model. Yours Sincerely, "Original Signed By" Michael Wernick
NC, PM, GG, CFNG 2012. (Photo by Fred Cattroll)
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Russell Means Remembered as Man of Inspiration (1939-2012)
29 October 2012 AARON ORLOWSKI, Rapid City Journal KYLE, S.D. (AP) – No single individual likely will ever fill Russell Means' shoes, but his legacy likely will be multiplied many times over by the Native Americans he inspired, his brother said at the Native American activist's funeral service in Kyle. Means died Monday of throat cancer at the age of 72. On Wednesday, more than 300 people attended the funeral service on the Pine Ridge
Empty saddle for Russell Means last ride.
Russell Means talking to reporters. (Photo: Lloyd Cunningham, Gannett/Argus Leader)
Indian Reservation. "He will be replaced by thousands," said Bill Means, Russell Means' only surviving brother. "One person is not going to replace him, but through his work, through his family, he will be replaced 1,000 times over." Those attending the service said Means made them feel proud to be a Native American by encouraging them to take pride in their heritage and challenging them to live it. Means himself never shied away from confrontation. As a young American Indian Movement leader, he spearheaded the 71-day occupation of Wounded Knee, which grabbed the attention of the entire nation. But Means was never meant to be a warrior, said Chief Leonard Crow Dog, a Lakota medicine man who participated in the Wounded Knee occupation in 1973. Means, he said, was first and foremost a spiritual leader, but the times called for a warrior, and like Crazy Horse, that is what he transformed into. "He will enter the happy hunting grounds," Crow Dog said before a procession that consisted of horseback riders who met several miles outside Kyle for a solemn journey to Little Wound High School, where an honoring was held into the night. Means' cremated remains were brought Wednesday from his ranch in Porcupine to the spot several miles outside of Kyle, where friends and family carried him the rest of the way on horseback on a dreary and cold day. One horse had no rider, a horse Means never had a chance to ride. On Wednesday, it was said to carry his spirit. "I never did ride with him," Scott Sinquah Means, Russell Means' second son, said before the ride. "Today is my first time I'll be riding with him." Before the ride, Scott fondly recalled how his father always encouraged him when he lost a boxing match, saying that he lost on a split decision. Only later did he realize that likely wasn't true and his father was just building his confidence. Along the way to Kyle, the riders made four stops, each time saying a prayer.
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The horseback procession carried Means' ashes to the Little Wound High School gymnasium. The riders chanted traditional songs as they approached the school and emerged from the fog. A drum beat and cries were heard as the group neared the school. A long trail of cars followed the riders – friends and family members – to pay their respects to a man many on the reservation admired. At the school, the riders gathered in a half-circle, facing an audience of admirers before a Lakota prayer was said. Tatanka Means carried his father's ashes into the school and brought them before the crowd that had gathered. For hours afterward, family, friends and admirers shared stories of Russell Means with each other, taking turns at the microphone. Some stories were told in the Lakota language, others in English. Well-wishers from across the country attended, with tribal members and others coming from as far away as Florida, Oklahoma, California, Colorado and Minnesota. Leaders from the Yankton Sioux Tribe and Oglala Sioux Tribe made appearances, including OST President John Yellow Bird Steele. Numerous other dignitaries paid their respects, including Rapid City Mayor Sam Kooiker and a representative of Sen. John Thune's office. "He gave pride to something that was systematically crushed," said Ward Churchill, an activist, writer and former co-director of the Colorado chapter of AIM. "To be Indian was to not be human. He turned that around in a real fundamental way." Churchill, a former professor at the University of Colorado Boulder, said Means could speak with elderly Indians as easily as lifelong academics. "He took the language back from them," he said. Arthur Zimiga, a lifelong friend of Means, said Means redefined what it meant to be Indian and helped Native Americans understand who they were apart from how the United States government defined them. "He was looking for equality. He said, 'I am a man, and I have a right to be a man and be free,"' Zimiga said.


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Global prime logistics rents remain on an upswing, says CBRE report
Report indicates gains due to the improving global economy and increased demand for goods bought both at physical store locations and online.
Given the strong economic outlook at the moment, it stands to reason that there have been various subsequent takeaways. One key one was highlighted in a report recently issued by commercial real estate firm CBRE, whose main thesis was that for the year ending March 31, global prime logistics rents saw gains, due, in large part, to the improving global economy, as well as increased demand for goods bought both at physical store locations and online.
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"This is a positive indicator that we're still seeing global growth roughly six years after the U.S. market for Industrial & Logistics real estate began its recovery from the recession," said David Egan, CBRE's Global Head of Industrial & Logistics Research. "This underscores the theory that e-commerce-driven demand for logistics facilities has created a fundamental shift in this market, establishing new baselines for occupancy, rents and other measures."
In its research, CBRE looked at rents in 71 global logistics hubs. The tope ten fastest growing markets, which CBRE ranks by the annual percentage change in prime taking rent in the local unit per annum, included: Vancouver, 21%; Beijing, 19.8%; Oakland, 14%; Seattle, 13.4%; Budapest, 11.1%; London, 10%; New Jersey, 9.5%; Tilburg/Eindhoven/Venlo, 9.5%; Paris, 8.3%; and Manchester/Liverpool 8%.
CBRE said that of the 71 global hubs it tracked, 49 recorded an annual increase in prime rents, 11 had decreases, and 11 remained unchanged.
The EMEA (Europe, Middle East, Africa) region saw prime logistics rents rise by 4.3%, coming in ahead of a 1.2% gain the prior year, according to CBRE. This outpaced the Americas, at 3.8%, matching the prior year, and Asia's 2.2% gain, outpacing a 1.4% improvement the year before.
"The biggest difference [compared to a year ago] in this report is that Europe is catching up, whereas gains in the Americas and Asia are largely the same as last time," said Egan. "While the European market had shown some growth for a while, it lagged globally, especially when compared to some other parts of the world. Part of the reason for that was that the economic recovery of the EU was slower than it was in the U.S. and Asia. Another factor was that the conditions on the ground in Europe are different than in the U.S. One of the things driving rent in the U.S. had been the supply-demand imbalance and a tremendous amount of competition for those spaces, as well as not a lot of supply. Where we are building is relatively expensive, so rents are going to be at a much higher number. Europe did not have that dynamic as much over the first part of this cycle and did not have a lot of development. And in areas where they did have development, it was in areas that were relatively cost-controlled that were not land-constrained so developers were able to get into these projects with a relatively low land basis."
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"That was a big governor to growth in Europe for a while, but that has flipped over the last year and a half, with building costs going up and land parcels rapidly being absorbed, with land getting more expensive," he said. "What we are seeing in Europe is market conditions that look like the U.S. in 2014-2015, where we had a really big pop in the U.S. We are starting to see development costs go up, and land supply is getting very constrained, and then you layer the economic recovery picking up steam on top of that much later than in the U.S., and it is an economic boost as well."
The growth in Europe really confirms the broader theme that what is happening there confirms the broader theme that there is a big global structural change in the market, with how tenants are using properties and the locations they are looking for, too, said Egan. He added that it is not region-specific.
"It is really a broader e-commerce supply chain consumption-driven type of dynamic," he said. "It is truly global; there is not a part of the world where it is not happening."
In the Americas, the report said that supply chain and e-commerce dynamics have fueled rent growth at different rates, with the U.S. and Canada setting the pace.
CBRE said that tenants have aggressively leased space in response to both persistent economic growth and the structural shifts resultant from e-commerce, which has, in turn, led to record low vacancy rates and record-high rents in nearly all U.S. and Canadian markets.
And while the U.S. economic cycle was called "well-advanced" by CBRE, the report pointed out that e-commerce and omnichannel retailing are still in the early stages of development. Taking that a step further, CBRE said that e-commerce sales are up 15.2% annually going back to 2010, with total retail sales up 9.4% annually in the first quarter of this year, up from 7.8% two years before that. CBRE said this data shows how "demand for high-quality, well-located logistics real estate is justified and is not expected to wane anytime soon."
About the AuthorJeff Berman, Group News Editor Jeff Berman is Group News Editor for Logistics Management, Modern Materials Handling, and Supply Chain Management Review. Jeff works and lives in Cape Elizabeth, Maine, where he covers all aspects of the supply chain, logistics, freight transportation, and materials handling sectors on a daily basis. Contact Jeff Berman
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