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: By PAT MURPHY

For several years Saanich school board trustees, ad-
ministrative staff and the native Indian communities in the
area have been seeking a secure, comfortable and _per-

. Manent place within: the teaching structure of the district
- for a native Indian language problem.

The search goes on.

Ata recent meeting of the board trustees Marilyn
Loveless and Joe Lott and assistant school superintendent
Janet Mort were authorized to elicit reaction from the
Indian people to a recent evaluation report.

One of the targets, set up about a year ago, was the
establishment of a special department for native Indian
studies. This implied removal of the native education
program from the category of special education services in
order to give it status and protect it, to some extent, from
cuts in educational services. It has, to.some extent,
achieved this objective and the program still survives.

“The history. of ‘native Indian studies in Saanich dates
-back to 1961 and a master tuition agreement between

Indian school. board was incorporated under the B.C...
Societies Act and, in 1974, learning assistance for Indian
“students began at Brentwood schcol,

~ The program has expanded since then and in 1976 the

- two’ school boards collaborated with a:joint program and

the ‘position of . native curriculum ~ development co-
ordinator was established.

The present highly successful native tutorial program
_. was begun at Steily’s school in 1978 and a number of native
Indian appointments to the program made subsequently.

a ee sentence’ “and © Menagh Place.

or. her. part in a_series of “Shakespeare "Se ‘Victoria,

Jan. 12 of this year.

Sidney.’ pleaded’ “guilty to. break, enter and theft..

Piercy Ave. and. Jocelyn. of this year, and returned to
“Place; and one count of the same home Jan,.5 and

federal and provincial governments..In 1972 the Saanich. .

‘theft to another hom on .

12 months probation May3. In. court May 2,. ‘Kevin oy
in. Sidney. provincial . court -Favelle, of 2621) >

~ ona ‘break-in to a. ‘Piercy 00am... HolyEucharist
“Ave. home Jan. 12.. ~ BY 10:00am... Morning Prayer.
Olav. Stensrud, 41, of Re Res Church School’.
404-405 Catherine St., Coffee Hour

break-ins in the Sidney area ‘was given a Suspended
e -} sentence. and. 12. months °
es “Tammy | Barbara Allan, probation - after. pleading °
17, of 2129 Bradford Ave., guilty: to three counts of

“two counts ofbreak, enter © Favelle “broke. ‘into a
-and theft ‘at. homes on. McTavish Rd. home Jan, 4:

THE REVIEW

An_ evaluation report .of native Indian language.
education in the. Victoria-Saanich region, submitted at a
recent meeting of the school board and passed along for
further study, will be the basis for discussions between the
Loveless-Lott-Mort committee and the native peoples.

The evaluation team consisted of Paul Sam, Zondra
Olney, Jo-Ann Archibald, Robert Prossner, Trisha
Wilcox, Yvonne Hebert (director), with Vincent D! Oyley
and Don McCaskill as consultants.

-It points out that the development of Indian education in
the two school district is now one of refinement rather than
initiation and improvement of the programs hinges on the
willingness of all parties concerned, native and otherwise,
to. help. with replanning and. find curriculum. materials
which are ‘‘appropriate.”’

Four distinct. native Indians languages occur ‘in ‘the
Victoria-Saanich district.. They are Coast Salish: in two
dialects, Sencoten and Songhees; Cowichan, a dialect: of
another Salishan language, Halkomelen; Nuu-chah-nulth,
a Wakashan language also known as the West Coast
language and Kwak’ wala, another Wakashan language.

In Saanich school district two instances of ‘native
language programming ‘have been built around different

instructors. But both. were Sencoten and both taught at.

Mount Newton middle school. The late Ernie Olson. was
one instructor and the other was David Elliott, Sr. The.
program was discontinued for a variety of reasons
although Elliott still continues to teach within the public
school system.

“Actually. I. believe the langauge is the base of the
people,’’ says Elliott, who is an Indian elder. ‘‘This is what
os us what. we are. The language comes out of the land,

Trade dollars

Ee | back this cuminier |

proclaimed. the 1984
Victoria Trade Dollars will
“once again .be negotiable.
--currency.in the municipality
“from. May.1 to Sept.. 30.

Mictoria». Visitors’
mation Centre.

a also convicted

EN Wednesday

Victoria, was sentenced to eae
10: 00am . = Holy Eucharist

three: months. in jail after
pleading guilty to impaired Hf
driving. Stensrud | also’ f
received. consecutive jail ..f
“sentences of seven days and |W pu
“three months after pleading §
~ guilty to: dangerous driving jj

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Robin Clarke, Manage:

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~ Branch, invites you to visit -

the branch and acquaint :
: yourself with our wide

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comes ‘out of natu ; comes out of our surroundings. It.
comes out of the sky, the earth, the sea, the wind, the air,

all the sounds of nature, the rivers, the streams.”’

Chief Sammy Sam: ‘‘I think the whole strength of our
culture is in our language: We are not getting to our
younger ones because of our laugange.

‘*When we look at some of the kids who have no sense of. _

values... . they have a conflict. What values do I use?
‘‘The thing that got me.-this far was my Indian language,
my Indian values, my Indian ways, my belief that I’m.an

Indian and that I have to exercise the things that I was:

taught by my grandparents, my ancestors — how I respect

all of nature. We have lost respect for all of those things.
“‘That’s the power of the Indian language. somehow it

has to be retained.”’

No grant
for trails"

A. Sunset Riding Club ~

application for federal.
grants to .open-: gazetted’
trails on.the peninsula for

horse riding access has been

turned down.

- So North Saanich: Ald.
Rebecca . Vermeer wants
council .to «approve ex
penditure. of $2,000 so the
municipality. can ~. hire. a:
“surveyor itself-so the trails:
can be located and cleared.

“Where do you expect. -(vaFamily TShirts Dovcenee gehen a -, 656-8131,
the money to come from,’” (30) MacLeod’s Store... 2. aren Bee ee ee ces 656-8611
queried. Ald. | Eric Sher- -(22)P.R. Western Star Trucks. 0...., beeen ees feet nee e ees .656-5252
wood. (18) Sadler’s Painting & Decorating Ltd. oe eee. 656-5646
(30) Sidney Car Care (Tidy Car): wie Hn Doe ie dag i OBB 147

Out. of ‘contingencies if |

need be, she said.

““T don’t. care. Ancrease iS
the pee it we have to, ase:
long ~ ‘find ‘the ane
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The evaluation report maintains that the public school
system has a responsibility to affirm a long-term com-
mitment to-native language education and antive studies -.
generally.

School board should clarify policies and help with direct
management.

Native and school agencies should identify crisis points
and objectives and co-operate for purposes of review and
improvement, the report states, and the public system |
should continue to recognize the value of consulting with
native Indian elders and using their advice before the ©
language dies out.

And native communities should speak the language i ina |
manner that retains its siguitigance, 2 and vitality, the report
states.

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