IN CANADA.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume XXIII, 17 May 1922, Page 8

IN CANADA.

QUESTION OF RESERVATION. Per Press Asoeiation—Copyright. OTTAWA. May 16. Mr Stewart, Minister of the Interior, assured the Indians at Brantford that their reservation lands would remain under the control of the Six Nations, and certain reforms would be instituted in the Indian Act. He refused to commit himself on their demands to define the Indian status either as Canadian subjects or as allies, advising the Indians to let the issue drop and live in >eace and harmony with the whites.

[A former message stated: A serious situation has arisen at the Six Nations Indian Reservation at Brantford, as a result of the Government ousting Indian squatters from reservation lands which the 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 officials who attempted to oust the squatters barely escaped with their lives. The Indians show an ancient deed purporting to give them complete rights over the reservation. Mr Stewart, Minister of the Interior, is due to arrive at Brantford to hold a meeting at which the Indians will be heard.]