; hy. as CastlégarNews Morch?, 198 Castle NATIVE RITUAL March 2, 1988 Castlegar News OFFICIAL SPONSOR 1988 YMPIC WINTER GAMES Victims die in riots MOSCOW (Reuter) — justice.” Ethnic riots between Azer- Soldiers and armored cars Vancouver city council wins wage appeal VANCOUVER (CP) — The City of Vancouver has SAFEWAY ay italiano Questing questioned baijanis and Armenians in enforced a curfew in Sumgait VICTORIA (CP) — Spirit questing, the ancient ritual of have reported being scratched and bitten. the city of Sumgait have during the nights of Monday the Coast Salish Indi: is usually compared to a spiritual “The purpose is not to coerce or punish,” said Guedon, claimed several lives, a Sov- and Tuesday after the riot- rebirth, but members of a Vancouver Island band say “The sensory overload has the same effect as sensory Fresh Bread & Paste Move Ooiy 10% Senior Discount on m iet Foreign Ministry spokes- man said today. 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The Specialists at H&R Block always have the answers you need Se THE INCOME TAX SPECIALISTS, 1761 Columbia Ave., Castlegar Old Shell Building 365-5244 violence on Sunday was not known, but several people also were injured, the spokesman said. “There were several vic- tims; not many, but several,” Foreign Ministry spokesman Gennady Gerasimov said in an interview. He said a criminal investi gation is under way. Sumgait, the Azerbaijani republic's second city, is at the centre of the latest out break of Soviet ethnic unrest. Gerasimov said an exact death toll should be available at a later date, adding: “I hope they will find those re. sponsible and bring them to ing. CITY QUIET Gerasimov said the city was quiet on Wednesday but he did not know when the curfew will be lifted. A Moscow dissident, Sergei Grigoryants, said earlier that 17 people were killed and 70 injured in the Sumgait disturbances. There was no independent con firmation of those figures. Grigoryants, who is of American origin, was quoting what he said were reports from Armenian families re- lated to the victims in Sum gait. Police in Sumgait, a Cas pian Sea industrial centre just north of the Azerbaijani capital of Baku, also said the city now is calm. B.C. wolf kill still continues VANCOUVER (CP) — En. vironmentalists trying to block British Columbia's wolf kill program in the Muskwa Valley will have to wait until Monday for a B.C. Supreme Court ruling on the matter. Madam Justice Carol Hud dard reserved judgment Tuesday. 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It used to be a privilege to be a dancer, but now I don't know,” says the wife of a spirit dancer from the Cowichan Valley's Halalt Indian band who didn't want her name used. “A lot of people are getting chosen against their will.” Doctors in the area worry the ritual’s regime of cold baths, fasting and lack of sleep is too much for some participants who aren't physically fit enough to endure it. David “Rocky” Thomas says he is an exaniple of the spirit quest gettng out of hand. The 32-year-old Halalt band member claims he was kid- napped and tortured by spirit dancers. He says he escaped the usual three-month longhouse initiation after his captors took him to hospital for treatment of:an ulcer. Last week, the B.C. Supreme Court issued an order restraining the Cowichan and Halalt bands, and several spirit dancers, from contacting Thomas. CHIEF UPSET Ernie Elliott, chief of the 2,000-member Cowichan band, said Tuesday he is upset “in a way” about Fécent publicity surrounding the ritual but declined to comment. He said the spirit dancers may issue a statement next month. The Coast Salish use spirit questing to cure people whom the community believes are in great danger, including those suffering from alcohol or drug addiction or judged to have done wrong. Marie Guedon, a University of British Columbia anthro- pogist, said while she knows of a few cases over the last 10 years where injury or death has occurred during the ritual, the practice is as successful a form of therapy as psychiatry. Guedon said the ritual performs a role traditionally done by native healers, who were banned by missionaries. “Theoretically, it's volunteers,” said Guedon, “but sometimes the family may ask the help of the initiates in taking care of a family member, especially in cases of alco- holism.” During the ritual, initiates may fast for four to five days and bathe in ice-cold streams, said Guedon. They also may be deprived of sleep, blindfolded, and moved around in a blanket, she said. The senses for initiates are overloaded with continual touching, loud drumming, singing, and rattling, she said. A waist-high rattle of deer hooves adorned with spirit figures issued to prod a person around the abdomen. Some initiates deprivation,” inducing a dream-like state where visions will *pPethe RCMP in Duncan, 50 kilometres northwest of Victoria, has received complaints from native Indians who don't want to be in the longhouse, said Staff Sgt. Ed Raaflaub. But the police don't view the ritual as a problem. “It always turned out they wanted to be there anyway,” he said, adding that Thomas did not contact police. Raaflaub said the police must consider the Indian's traditional beliefs. “The longhouse ceremony is entrenched in the community,” he said. “Where it comes into conflict is when it meets head-on with non-native laws. “We may get complaints from people who have been taken against their will . . . But in a situation like this you have to be very careful,” he said. Coroner Dick Walton is currently investigating the death of Gordie Goldsmith, in his mid-30s, who died Feb. 12 in a longhouse near Duncan, B.C. In 1982, Frank White died in a Cowichan longhouse. His widow said at the inquest he took part in the ritual at his own request and the death was ruled due to natural causes. A pathologist, however, testified conditions of starvation, dehydration and hypothermia led to White's death, The medical community around Duncan is concerned about the problem, but reluctant to intervene in a cultural ritual. “T've had four cases in the past two years where people Kiave been hospitalized,” said Dr. Charles Ennals, who has practised in the Cowichan valley for 21 years. Other physicians have had similar cases, he said. Ideally, medical exams should be performed before people take part in spirit questing, he said. A Duncan mother, who also asked not to be identified, said she was afraid to say no toa group of spirit dancers who took away her son last year. After spending three months in a Cowichan Indian reserve longhouse, he was taken to hospital, she said. “My son had lost weight and was dehydrated,” said the woman. “He had been drinking for a while. My doctor said they handled him wrong . . . too roughly.” During the purification ceremony,| her son was bitten and scratched, but she felt incapable of intervening, the woman said. “I was so upset and angry, but there was nothing I could do. I was thankful to the Lord that he didn't die.” RCMP quash roadblock NEW HAZELTON, B.C. (CP) — A contingent of 30 RCMP members arrived at this northwestern B.C. com munity in a chartered bus Tuesday to break up an In- dian roadblock that had been takep down Monday night. The RCMP reinforce ments, brought in from Prince Rupert, Terrace and Smithers, had been prepared for a major showdown with Indians in the nearby village of Kispiox. They had brought a second bus in case it was necessary to arrest and transport Indian protesters. The RCMP members turn- ed around and went home after being told the roadblock at Kispiox, 600 kilometres northwest of Vancouver, had been taken down. The roadblock prevented at least 60 trucks from moving in and out of the Kis. piox Valley. The trucks were hauling wood for Westar Timber Ltd. and other, smaller forest firms. It provoked angry truckers to set up their own road block, preventing Irftian sawmill workers from leav. ing Kispiox to go to their jobs in New Hazelton. removed their trucks from the Kispiox River bridge after local RCMP Sgt. Fred Simpson arrived at the scene. Don Ryan, president.of the Gitksan-Wet-suwet’en Tribal Council, criticized the heavy police response. “They don't go around busting people who are des- troying and tearing up the land, but you do sure see them when they come in to bust Indians,” Ryan said. PROTEST LOGGING Local chiefs decided to erect Monday's roadblock to protest logging practices in their traditional territories and to press their point that the forests continue to be harvested while a B.C. Su- preme Court judge is hearing their claim of title to the area in Vancovuer. The area claimed by the 54 hereditary chiefs named as plaintiffs in the landmark trial was never ceded to the Crown by treaty, but lawyers representing the Attorney General's Ministry are argu- ing that local Indians effect- ively surrendered the area by conforming to the law and allowing logging roads, high- ways and non-Indian settle- “On the one hand, they say we've acquiesced to the sys. tem so we've surrendered our title, but if we stand up, we're crushed by their mili- tary apparatus,” Ryan said. Supt. Ron Pettitt said RCMP would likely have moved in to remove the massive cedar log that form. ed the roadblock if negotia: tions failed to clear the high- ways into the Kispiox timber supply area, which yields more than a half-million cubic Union ‘holde VANCOUVER (CP) — Al- most a year after being placed in trusteeship by its international headquarters, members of the Retail Clerks Union have elected as their new president the Win- nipeg man who administered the trusteeship. Brooke Sundin, who was appointed last March 18, won 72.5 per cent of the votes cast by 21 per cent of the union's 10,930 members. The Retail Clerks’ Union is metres of timber annually — enough wood to build about 10,000 houses. “We were prepared to ef. feet arrests,” he said. “But we were not tnere to take sides by any stretch of imagination. “I hate seeing this sort of thing,” Pettitt said. “Some oT the elders are looking wide and far and they certainly are intelligent people, but we don't like this type of con frontation.” clerks lection Food and Commercial Work ers’ Union. “There was some adverse reaction to the trusteeship in the initial phases but as that trusteeship progressed, the programs we put in place were very well received,” Sundin said Tuesday, adding that members encouraged him to run for office. A runoff election likely will be held in the next two months for the position of After an hour, the truckers ments to proceed. LOOKING FOR A SPEAKER TO SPARK YOUR MEETINGS? 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The bylaw was chall by the I Canadian Business Association, Axel Gringmuth,-and E.T.S. Electric Ltd. in B.C. Supreme Court, which handed down a judgment throwing the city’s bylaw into question. But in a unanimous judgment written by Mr. Justice Charles Locke, the three appeal judges said Monday that council has the right to make the terms of contracts for matters under its jurisdiction. Locke said the case could not be distinguished from a 1915 jud, which i “fair wage” pi in municipal contracts. “If the ratepayers do not agree, their remedy is at the polls, not in the courts,” Locke quoted from the 78-year-old judgment. Dioxins found in river fish REGINA (CP) — Test results released Thursday show two highly toxic chemicals have been found in fish from the North Saskatchewan River near Prince Albert, Sask. The tests, ordered by a provincial fisheries official, found the fish were contaminated with the most toxic type of dioxin and furans — toxins linked with cancer, birth defects and heart problems. Provincial officials say there is no health hazard. But environmental experts in both Canada and the United States say the toxins are of great concern at any level. The highest level of dioxin 2378 TCDD found was eight parts per trillion, less than half the limit of 20 parts per trillion set out in federal guidelines. The highest concentration of furan 2378 TCDF was 17 parts per trillion. Provincial officials said the furan is about one-half as toxic as the dioxin. TOXICITY DISPUTED Greenpeace spokesman Renate Kroesa insists there is no safe level of dioxin 2378 TCDD. “It’s like radioactivity,” Kroesa said in a telephone interview from Halifax. “Some people say there is absolutely no safe level and governments go along with that. Then industry..comes. along..and.say.s.you can .eat.-food, slightly contaminated with radiation with no fear of cancer. Ellen Silbergeld, a toxicologist in the United States, said health experts now are sayng dioxin 2378 TCDD probably causes cancer. “The data, in the opinion of the World Health Organization, now are sufficient to consider dioxin a probable human carcinogen, and that’s not an organization that reaches conclusions lightly,” Silbergeld said in a telephone interview from Washington. Herb Swan, Saskatchewan's environment minister, said there is no reason to believe a health hazard exists from the amounts of dioxins and furans found in the fish. “We have no information to indicate it is a health hazard at this point,” Swan told reporters. SOURCE UNKNOWN The tests results do not point at the Prince Albert pulp mill as the source of the toxins, but recent government studies in the United States have linked the production of dioxins and furans with the chlorine-bleaching process at pulp mills. The suspected link between pulp mills and the toxins is also being examined by the federal Fisheries Department. Fish taken from waters near pulp mills across Canada are being tested for dioxin and furan contamination and results are expected by early April. The results of other tests ordered by the province may also- help determine whether the toxins came from the Weyerhaeuser pulp mill at Prince Albert. Test results are expected within three weeks on whether the same dioxins and furans found in the fish are present in liquid and solid wastes from the pulp mill. Weyerhaeuser officials were not available for comment. 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