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The Union of British Columbia Indian Chiefs (UBCIC) is a First Nations political organization founded in 1969 in response to Jean Chrétien's White Paper proposal to assimilate Status Indians and disband the Department of Indian Affairs.
Hereditary Chief John L. George was the longest serving elected Chief and founding member of the Union of BC Indian Chiefs, formed in 1969 against the Liberal 'White Paper' Policy that would end Indian status. He was a strong advocate and protector of TWN Aboriginal Rights and Title.
Ronald M. Derrickson is an Indigenous leader from the Interior of British Columbia, Canada who was six times elected chief of the Westbank Indian Band and was made a Grand Chief by the Union of BC Indian Chiefs in 2012. He is also one of the most successful Indigenous businessmen in Canada and won an Aboriginal Achievement Award for Business ...
Grand Chief Stewart Phillip is an Okanagan Aboriginal leader who has served as president of the Union of British Columbia Indian Chiefs since 1998. As chief of the Penticton Indian Band in British Columbia from 1994 until 2008, as well as chair of the Okanagan Nation Alliance, he has advocated for Aboriginal rights for the First Nations in that province and particularly in the Okanagan region.
In British Columbia, the First Nations Summit represents 203 bands in the province that are engaged in treaty negotiations with Canada and British Columbia. [6] An older organization, the Union of British Columbia Indian Chiefs, represents the bands that reject the current British Columbia Treaty Process. Some bands belong to both.
The Native Brotherhood of British Columbia was founded in 1931 as a province-wide First Nations rights organization. A split took place in the League of Indians in 1938, and in 1939 the Indian Association of Alberta was formed.
In opposition to the 1969 White Paper, Charlie and the IHA organized two "moccasin walks", culminating in a large gathering of chiefs, which helped lead to the foundation of the Union of BC Indian Chiefs in November 1969. [2] Charlie became a member of the Union's executive council and was later named a Grand Chief. [2]
George Manuel was President of the Union of BC Indian Chiefs (UBCIC) [5] from 1979 to 1981, where he continued to inspire indigenous action. He developed the Aboriginal Rights Position Paper and organized what came to be regarded as one of the UBCIC's most ambitious projects: the Indian Constitutional Express. [6]