Georges Henry Erasmus | President
Born August 8, 1948, Fort Rae, North West Territories
(N.W.T.), Canada.
Education:
High School, Yellowknife, N.W.T. Principal Occupation:
Chair, Aboriginal Healing Foundation/Chief Negotiator, Decho First Nations.
Affiliations:
Secretary, Indian Band Council, Yellowknife, N.W.T.
(1969-71); Organizer and Chairman, Community Housing Association, Yellowknife,
N.W.T. (1969-72); Advisor to President, Indian Brotherhood of N.W.T. (1970-71);
Fieldworker and Regional Staff Director, Company of Young Canadians (1970-73);
Director, Community Development Program, Indian Brotherhood of Northwest
Territories (later the Dene Nation) (1973-76); President, Indian Brotherhood of
Northwest Territories/Dene Nation (1976-83); President, Denendeh Development
Corporation (1983); elected Northern Vice-Chief, Assembly of First Nations
(1983-85); elected National Chief, Assembly of First Nations, Ottawa, Canada,
(1985); re-elected National Chief (1988-91); Co-Chair, Royal Commission on
Aboriginal Peoples (RCAP), Ottawa, Canada (1991 - 1996); Chair, Aboriginal
Healing Foundation, Ottawa, Canada (1998); Chief Negotiator, Dehcho First
Nations (2004).
Membership:
Honorary Member, Ontario Historical Society (1990).
Awards, Honours:
Representative for Canada on Indigenous Survival
International (1983-85); Canadian delegate to World Council of Indigenous
Peoples International Conferences (1984-85); appointed Director of the World
Wildlife Fund of Canada (1987-1990); appointed to the Order of Canada (Member,
1987; Officer, 1999); appointed to the Board of the Canadian Tribute to Human
Rights (1987); Board Member, Energy Probe Research Foundation, Operation
Dismantle (1988-98); Honorary Committee Member, International Youth for Peace
(1988); Advisory Council Member, the Earth Circle Foundation (1988); Honorary
Degree of Doctorate of Laws from: Queen’s University (1989), University of
Toronto (1992), University of Winnipeg (1992), York University (1992),
University of British Columbia (1993), Dalhousie University (1997), University
of Alberta (1997), University of Western Ontario (2006), and University of
Dundee (2007); Aboriginal Achievement Award for Public Service, (1998); Public
Policy Forum Award for Public Policy Work (2006); Board of Directors, Earth Day
(1990); Board of Directors, SAVE Tour (1990).
Published work:
Co-author, Drumbeat: Anger and Renewal in Indian
Country (Summer Hill Publishers, 1990).