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The Bourbon News
Paris, Bourbon County, Kentucky
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The 5,000 members of the Six Nations in Ontario, Canada, protest a proposed dog tax by the Indian Department, claiming treaty rights as government allies, and plan to challenge it in court to maintain their independence and community happiness.
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Self-determination is uppermost in the minds of the 5,000 members of the six nations, now wards of the Canadian Government and occupying a reservation in the province of Ontario. The dog question has made it a burning issue. The Indian Department wants to tax the red men's dogs, and the Indians protest, basing their legal objections on treaty rights which stipulates that these folks are "allies" of the Canadian Government and therefore an independent people.
The Indians will fight the proposed tax through the courts if need be, not only because they are as anxious as ever to maintain their rights, but because the more dogs an Indian community has the happier the inhabitants are.
The descendants of the "Romans of the West," as the Iroquois confederacy was rightly called, retained much of the pride, firmness and haughtiness of their forefathers. They always did stand out for what they considered their own, and in doing so now are demonstrating that the old spirit is alive even though it may have seemed extinct.
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Province Of Ontario
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indians will fight the proposed tax through the courts if need be
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Self-determination is uppermost in the minds of the 5,000 members of the six nations, now wards of the Canadian Government and occupying a reservation in the province of Ontario. The dog question has made it a burning issue. The Indian Department wants to tax the red men's dogs, and the Indians protest, basing their legal objections on treaty rights which stipulates that these folks are "allies" of the Canadian Government and therefore an independent people. The Indians will fight the proposed tax through the courts if need be, not only because they are as anxious as ever to maintain their rights, but because the more dogs an Indian community has the happier the inhabitants are. The descendants of the "Romans of the West," as the Iroquois confederacy was rightly called, retained much of the pride, firmness and haughtiness of their forefathers. They always did stand out for what they considered their own, and in doing so now are demonstrating that the old spirit is alive even though it may have seemed extinct.