Get involved with youth

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Dear Editor:

I feel shame for all my Native peoples of Canada. Shame on us for not volunteering our time, knowledge, monies and love to our youth. Not a hand is being offered to help and make a difference without government "beads" monies. Our national leaders complain and cry about receiving only $12 million to operate.

Has anyone of my Native peoples of Canada thought about the Beothucks or "Red Indians" of Newfoundland? I'm sorry, but I don't hear any prayers, concerns, not even a mention of a whole nation of Native peoples, wiped out forever, hunted down like dogs for $10 a scalp until, by the early 1800s, the Beothucks were no more.

I feel shame for myself and my Native peoples of Canada. I cry inside and out, for I hear and feel the pain from the lost murdered spirits of the Beothucks of New-found-land.

Please, I beg you all. Get informed in activities for the youth and Elders. The payments will come to you 10 times over, and I tell you from experience this is worth more than all the monies we get as a gift.

George A. Mercredi