> This information is reproduced from the news summary of The
> Daily News, Halifax, Nova Scotia, from Thursday, March 16, 1995. If
> anyone reading this can offer an Indigenous perspective on this
> issue, please post it here. Susan
>
> Wine store fined for barring natives...
>
> VANCOUVER - A Vancouver wine store has been ordered to pay $1,000
> because a supervisor made disparaging remarks about natives and
> ordered employees to bar them from the premises...
As the worrior in the film on Alkali Lake project stated, the white man's
alcohol industry's way of making a living has become our way of dying.
Are individual rights more important than the destruction of our people?
There are villages here that now are growing healthy and the children are
once again safe because the people have banded together in their fight
against the davestation of alcohol. This fight includes the mandatory
search for alcohol of every airplane that lands on the village airstrip.
Some white people cry "violation of individual rights" "restrition of
free trade, the very principle this nation was built on."This nation was
built on the blood of my people, the alcohol industry is finishing what
Columbus started. Because of the restriction of the importation of
alcohol, the death rates for the people have decreased dramatically, the
rates of child abuse have decreased, the rates of family violence have
decreased and the children are becoming happy again because they feel
safe. I would that every one of my brothers and sisters be barred from
alcohol.