CANADIAN INDIANS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 18556, 17 May 1922, Page 5

CANADIAN INDIANS

THE SIX NATIONS RESERVATION, Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. \ / OTTAWA, May 16. (Received Mr Stewart, Minister of the Interior, assured the Indians at Brantford that the reservation lands would remain under the control of the Six and that certain reforms would be instituted in the Indian Act, but he refused to commit himself on the demands to define the Indians’ status either as Canadian subjects or as allies, advising the Indians to let the issue drop and live in pea«C6 and harmony with the whites. —A. and N.Z. Cable. [A former calegrairt- stated that a serious situation had-arisen at the Six Nations Indian Reservation at Brantford, Ontario, as a result of the Government ousting _ Indian squatters from reservation lands which tha Government reserved for ex-service men. Indian chiefs, who travelled to England to see the , King, were told by Mr Winston Churchill that the matter was completely in the Canadian Government’s hands. The Canadian court officers who attempted to oust the squatters barely escaped with theia lives- The Indians sho\y an ancient deed purporting to give them complete rights over the reservation.]