Gourchene rightly censured for helping create "100 years of Oppression". Second, the llack and white RCMP cruiser car which continually toured the fort grounds. Third, that the Indian master of ceremonies at the pew wow could still laughingly declare, "one hundred years ago the Sioux nation braves fought the white man and scalped him. Today he scalps us". The presence of an RCMP patrol car and constables at the celebrationswasundoubtedly to many people there, as it was to me, a symbol of both past and present. Of the past,because -100 years ago the newly formed'North~West Mounted Police (forerunner of RCMP) received its first training at this tort. 0f the present, because to many Indians on reservations (part- " icularly isolated ones) the mountie is often their major link with the "white man's fout— side". 0f the past, because Without the RCMP the Canadian West would neverhavebeensettled peacefully ()a sharp contrast to the American West) nor become a land where Indian and white thave lived together in relative peace and harmony for the past 100 years. Of the 'present, because our society-—which lives by the maxim "let George do it"-—often pushes theznountie, a made~to~order George, into acting as its daily emissary on reserves instead of becoming nzmore,persona11y involvod. %: ;.Treaty two, drawn up Aug. 21, 1871, established Rolling RiVer reserve andseveralothers. W“Indian commissioner W.M. Simpson signed for the crown and chiefs Mekis (Theangle), Ma~ea~ kee-yash Francois (Broken Fingers), Sow Sense (Little Long Ears) and Kee-wee-tah-qunn—na- yash (Richard Woodhouse) signed for their respective hands. This reservation, today cem- posed of 22 sections of land and 308 residents, lies about 15 miles northwest of Minnedosa and tire miles southwest of Erickson. Another reserve, Okanase, lying furthez'westWas”cre- ated Sept. 15, 1874. ' For a number of years Rolling Rivor reserve was known as South Quill Band after their chief Soutthuill. Other chiefs which preceded James Shannacappo wareWapapeness,JohnHunt- inghawk, Kamnukan (Jim Wilson), Jim and Lionel Shannacappo. . Two weeks ago while visiting Rolling River reserve Chief White Eagle of SiouxValleyRe- serve (alias.Rremier Ed Schreyer) declared the past week Indian Week to commemorate the 100th annivorsary of the signing of treaties one and two at Lower Fort Garry.. "The Indian communities," he reminded Manitobans following his tour of our province's Indian reserVes, "tend to lack a sense of identification with the proVince". May this identification become a living reality for Rolling Rivsr reserve and the 53 other Manitoba reserve cammunities during the next century; "” r 5. MINNEDOSA MALLARD MANAGEMENT PROJECT VALLEY VISTAS column, Brandon Sun, Aug. 20/71 "The Minnedosa pothole region is the type of breeding habitat that has been trecognized as one of the best in North America;.however, the mallard breeding population and brood ‘Ll'production has drastically declined from levels recorded in the early 19503. In 1953 there f_ were 32 mallard pairs per square mile and half of them Were successful in raising broods. Over the last three years the breeding density has dropped to approximately one—half the 1953 level while production has fallen as low as one brood per square mile". This is a quote from research biologist Richard Sellers, a recent masters graduate in wildlife ecology at University of Wisconsin, who has during the past summer been managing the final phase of one of the more unique research projects on the Canadian Prairies. Minnedosa Mallard Management Project, lecated about nine miles south of Minnedosaand15 miles north of Brandon (the Moore Park-CordovahRoseneath area), was born in the spring of 1969. Frank Funnell, president of Minnedosa Wildlife (Game and Fish) Association,anda re- gional director of the western region whose farm is located near the centre of the eight» square—mile project area, indicates that the numerous smaller research projects conducted here for two decades clearly suggested a more cemprehensiVe and co-ordinated project was imperative. Dr. A. Hochbaum, then director of Delta Waterfowl Research Stationtn1Lake Man- itoba (he's since retired and been succeeded by Dr. R. Jones), was approached bythis asso— ciation. Following numerous consultations and much planning, of which enlistment of the co- operation of 14 farmers was a vital aspect, the project took shape. Delta Station, spon- V sored by North American Wildlife Foundation, is a centre dependent on private unstributions.‘ Farmers are often accused of refusing to co-operate with sportsmen andwildliferesearch- are. Not so the 14 farmers on whose land the project is located. Besides Franktheyinclude H.W. Foxton, W. Treloar, F. Willms, M. Riemer, E. Williams, G.L. Shuttleworth, T. Fraser, E. and R. Meadows, 0. Larerriere, W. Panko, W. Lewis, N. McKinnon. These men were not re— quested to change their farming practices. They received no remuneration, they volunteered to