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INDIAN FARM OPENS â€" The Saugeen Indian Reserve is m the farming businnss officially as of Saturday. Above. left to right. Chief lame: Mason. Councillor Roy Wesley and Grey Bruno MPP Ed- Llie Sat gent cut a rtbbuu to mark the occasion. The band is running a OPBFBUOH Saugeen Indians in cattle business t By JOHN WRIGHT Sun Times Stafl ELStNORE â€" The Saugaan Indian Reserve to nl'ftLt-pllx in the cattle business. Calling ll an historical occasion. Chief lamea \tasun Saturdav helped out the ribbon to open the band‘s moanra cow-call operatinn tncated wit the reserve. 'Ttna enterprise is going to be both a trial for us and a challenga." said Mason. The chief said the Seugeen hand must not fail hetiause bath Indians and whites "rim gnng In be watching us " He said the government has been trying for mu \‘ears It» ItinP Indiana agrarian and now “thav've succeeded hare." Approval of band capital funds for the our chase nt off-reserve lands was announced May 1 by Hugh Falkner minister of Indian affairs and northern development. the band went autatda the reserve and paid $75,000 inr a nearby farm in Bruce Cuunty. The purchase was not without its problems, FOR AMABEL TOWNSHIP COUNCIL C C DOROTHY SIEGRIS'I' in a raaarva press release. the band council ravanlnd “restrictions on the purchase wora achned by the department of Indian affairs and northern development and Bruca County in that Indian bands are not considered legal entities and could not enter into such a purchase." For that reason, the purchase at the farm was registered in the name of Chief James Mason. The release slated tha band took out 8 352.000 mortgage and the balance was made up of hand funds. The release claims that the Saugaen may be the first raaarvn In all of Canada tn use land off the reserve as an economic base. White about 18 head of rugiatorod Horofflrda grazed nn the hills. a sacred Indian sweat grass ceremony over an open fire was held below the official red ribbon to herald the event. The band has about 40 head of registered cattle and the reserve is out for more funding to install Extensive drainage work on the reserve for pasture land. Plans call for about 1.000 rsgiaterad head to be I would appreciate your support at the polls on MONDAY, NOVEMBER 13. 1978 â€" 11 a.m. TO 0 run. FIRE HALL, SAUBLE BEBSH i Sun Times photo 100~acre. cow-calf operation on a farm about a third of a kilometre ' east of the reservation The Indians said that the band could be the i first reserve in Canada to use land off the reserve in a business ‘ @f' /'<r </ raised an the reserve in conjunction with Ilia t farm. 0hr Ruzendall. a federal government specialist. said the ldSE to purchase off the reserve was to insure that if the enterprise did hail. the reserve could recoup the money from the ante nt the farm. 1 He said the [arm will also he used to GRIPon t and train about 10 reserve raaidenia each year in ‘ the practices of beef farming. Rozendall said the band has an application into the ministry for money to hire a full-time farm manager. The enterprise is being aided to some degree ‘ by the federal government. Velma Hart of the Owen Sound Manpower offica said tndtan residents training on the farm ‘ are being paid a large parcenlage of their wages through a Manpower industrial training program. The farm is lucatad on Highway 21. about a third of a kilometre east of the reserve. 1'.