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Show Vote, Drink Readied -r.. hWbv fray's Dawning For Canada Indians Indians patronize bootleggers instead in-stead of legal dispensaries. Wast Bu Beaaeved The committee recommends removal re-moval of the ban on sale to Indians In-dians outside their reserves though it proposes that legal prohibition continue within reserve boundaries. bound-aries. Indians have not availed themselves them-selves of the right to become citizens citi-zens for fear of losing tribal privileges, priv-ileges, the committee finds. Those who served in the armed forces in World War I or II have the right to vote at federal elections without becoming citizens. ,The committee would extend this right to all Indians. It points out that they pay no income tax on their reserves, but must do so if they earn Income. They also pay indirect taxes. Hence, the present system means taxation without representation, says the committee. com-mittee. Other Proposals Other proposals are: 1. That Indian schools concentrate concen-trate on training children for citizenship.' 2. That Indian children be educated, edu-cated, as far as possible. In the same schools aa white children. 3. That Indian reserves, which are sufficiently advanced, be incorporated in-corporated as municipalities. 4. That band and reserve councils coun-cils be vested with more self-government self-government and more responsibility responsibil-ity for their own affairs and that there be less bossing by Indian agents. -EXCLUSIVE- By Frank Flaherty Chicago Dally . News Service OTTAWA, Canada, June 28 A new day is dawning for the Canadian Cana-dian Indian. In a year or two he'll - have .the right to buy and drink a (lass of beer or whisky and the right to vote at federal'elections. The new rights are not quite In the bag yet They are - being strongly recommended, however, by a Joint committee of the Canadian Cana-dian senate and house of commons com-mons which has been working for two years on a revision of Canada's Can-ada's outdated Indian act C a n a d a has something over 129,000 Indians who enjoy a special spe-cial legal status. For practical purposes they are wards of the federal government although Indians In-dians who cherish their tribal traditions tra-ditions like to consider themselves allies of the king, the "Great I . White Father." Up to now they have had neither the privileges nor the responsibilities of citizenship. citizen-ship. They do have privileges of their own, however. Tax Exemption For example, their reserves are exempt from taxation and many f them draw "treaty money," an annual payment from the government govern-ment for the surrender of their tribal lands. The parliamentary committee wants the setup revised to give the Indian more responsibility and more self-government on his own reserves and to encourage him to accept Canadian citizenship. The sale of liquor to Indiana Is presently illegal, the theory being that firewater does things to them It doesn't do to white men. So the |