Union of British Columbia Indian Chiefs

Union of British Columbia Indian Chiefs
FormationNovember 22, 1969; 54 years ago (1969-11-22)
HeadquartersVancouver, BC, Canada & Kamloops, BC, Canada
President
Grand Chief Stewart Phillip
Websitehttp://www.ubcic.bc.ca/

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.[1]

Since the disbanding of the Allied Tribes of British Columbia in 1927, there had been many attempts to create a unified provincial organization, but conflict between the primarily coastal/Protestant Native Brotherhood of British Columbia and the primarily interior/Catholic National American Indian Brotherhood had been too great.

At a three-day meeting in November 1969 in Kamloops, 175 provincial chiefs unanimously voted to create the UBCIC. In 1971, the UBCIC adopts its Constitution and By-laws and is incorporated under the BC Societies Act.[2]

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