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A-6 Monday, December 2, 1974 HONOLULU ADVERTISER Benefits of claims bill cited ALOHA interests Alaska natives 1) A evil products to do their daily work. "OUR EDITOR realized this and appeared at one of the hearings in Fairbanks recently to make this clear," she said. Citing another example, she said the entire character of her home village of Rampart, about 95 air miles northwest of Fairbanks on the Yukon River, has been changed by the Alaska Natives reparations movement. Sugar planters meet today The 94th annual meeting of the Hawaiian Sugar Planter's Association will be held today at 9 a.m. in the Amfac board room.

The meeting will feature a talk by Henry Keswick, chairman and senior managing director of Jardine, Matheson and the Hong Kong-based company which bought Theo. H. Davies Co. last year. By LEONARD LUERAS Advertiser Staff Writer On the front page masthead of the Tundra Times are two moose and as many dog sleds facing each other on a snowy plain.

To the left and right are the paper's tribal slogans: From the Inupiat Eskimos from Alaska's north slope area: "Inupiat Pai- tot" for "People's Heritage." From the Athabascan Indians of the Yukon River drainage area "Den Nena Henash" "Our Land Speaks." From the Aleut people in the Aleutian Islands chain: "Unanguq Tunuk-tuq" "The Aleuts Speak." And from the Tlingit Indians of southeast Alaska "Ut kah neek" "Informing and Reporting." WHAT FOLLOWS, on 12 pages weekly with a city and bush circulation of 4,000, are stories, pictures and advertisements printed exclusively for the native people of Alaska by native people. "It's the only newspaper in Alaska produced by natives for natives and it has been very instrumental in assisting the people of Alaska, the na tives in particular, with their special needs." The speaker is Mary Jane Fate, a half-Athabascan Indian who serves as a board member and secretary to the board of the Tundra Times. The Times is published by the Eskimo, Indian, Aleut Publishing Co. of Fair-' banks. Editor and publisher of the Times is Howard Rock, an Eskimo from Point Hope, Alaska.

MRS. FATE, who is active in Alaskan native affairs and serves as a board member of the North American Indian Women's Association, has been in Hawaii this past week to vacation and visit with members of Hawaii's Aboriginal Lands of Ha-wt ii; Ancestry (ALOHA) organization. She's not making political appearances here on ALOHA's behalf but Mrs. Fate indicated in an interview last week that many Alaskan native people are very aware of and interested in the ALOHA group's campaign to gain reparations from the U.S. Government for native Hawaiian people.

(In October the Alaska Federation of Natives, held its annual convention at Anchorage, at She declined comment on particulars haven't been here long but assured her interviewer that "in the end, what will be good for the Hawaiians, will be truly good for Honolulu, Hawaii and the United States "We found that to be very true in Alaska, because now that we've got something to work with, we're building Alaska for Alaskans, and the people's needs are truly being cared for." AS AN EXAMPLE, Mrs. Fate said the Tundra Times, which is closely read by politicians, administrators and other persons concerned with Alaskan native affairs, has been effective since its founding in 1962 as a liaison between the bush and Congress. "In our pages we've focused attention on grassroots problems unlike those of any other geographical region in the world. The writing may not have been so professional, but the word got out and the people got results." The wording of a recently proposed sea-mammals act being considered by Congress, for example, would have jeopardized the unusual livelihoods of certain native craftsmen who rely on sea-mammal awirded $1 billion and some 40 million acres of land to be divided among all Alaskans with one-quarter or more native blood. Individual Alaskan natives haven't gotten much actual cash received one check for $181 and another for $90 so but the long-term benefits are quite impressive.

Bureaucratic kinks still are being ironed out of the Federal land and money distribution scheme but the great bulk of the reparations have been distru-buted among 12 regional corporations which, in turn, have begun doling out land and funds to village corporations (one for every village with 25 residents or more). "But the important thing," Mrs. Fate said, "is that money and land are both now available to us. That's something we didn't have before. "And so now we are planning and running our own businesses, both profit-making and nonprofit ones, and we are tending to our own special needs the way we feel they should be tended to." PERSONS OF Hawaiian descent also should have these privileges, she said, "because I'm sure the natives of Hawaii have special needs not being satisfied by the other people." BE POPULAR-DANCE WITH CONFIDENCE Mrs.

Fate: "Money and land are bqth now available to us." $2250 Advertiser photo by Charles Okamura ger land mass (about twice the size of Texas) but she feels ALOHA's claims situation is quite similar to the Alaskan one which resulted in the Alaska Native Land Claims Bill of 1971. That land claims bill which time a resolution was passed expressing the federation's endorsement and solidarity with the ALOHA reparations movement.) MRS. FATE recognizes that Alaska is a much big $87.60 VALUE 4 Private Vi hr. dance lessons AMfcHtCAN COLLEGE SWITZERLAND All-volunteer unit general says 2 Semi-Private hour lessons 2 One hour practice sessions 1 Student-teacher party JlrthnfKJiUmi muwcwmd euwes nune AMERICAN COLLEGE OF SWITZERLAND AlMNi CAMPUS UOVI LAKI MNCVA HAWAII INTERVIEWS Diamonds Jades Watches Watch Jewelry Repair CROWN JEWELERS, INC. 1481 S.

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