Chief perry bellegarde biography of williams

          For 35 years, he has held various First Nations leadership roles, including two terms served as the National Chief of the Assembly of First Nations (AFN).!

          Newly elected National Chief of the Assembly of First Nations, Perry Bellegarde, gave the first lecture in the North at Trent lecture series.

        1. Newly elected National Chief of the Assembly of First Nations, Perry Bellegarde, gave the first lecture in the North at Trent lecture series.
        2. Perry Bellegarde, re-elected National Chief of the Assembly of First Nations in , holds a wealth of leadership experience.
        3. For 35 years, he has held various First Nations leadership roles, including two terms served as the National Chief of the Assembly of First Nations (AFN).
        4. Chief Bellegarde was awarded an honorary Doctor of Laws for his work championing the rights and well-being of First Nations.
        5. The charismatic year-old head of the Federation of Saskatchewan Indian Chiefs considers the AFN's relationship with Ottawa “adversarial.” He.



          6. Perry Bellegarde, Cree, 1962-

          He is a Canadian First Nations and Métis activist and politician, who was elected as national chief of the Assembly of First Nations on December 10, 2014.

          A member of the Little Black Bear First Nation in Saskatchewan (Treaty 4), he has served as a band councillor in Little Black Bear, as chief of the Federation of Saskatchewan Indian Nations and as the Saskatchewan regional chief of the Assembly of First Nations.
          After high school he attended the Saskatchewan Federated Indian College, and in 1984 Bellegarde became the first Treaty Indian to graduate from the University of Regina with a Bachelor of Administration.  Following his graduation, he worked as director of personnel for the Saskatchewan Indian Institute of Technologies, before joining the Touchwood–File Hills–Qu’Appelle Tribal Council in 1986.

          In 1988, Bellegarde led negotiations to transfer management of the Fort Qu’Appelle Indian Hospital, where