Phil fontaine net worth
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Who is Phil Fontaine?
It’s probably fair to say that most Cree people didn’t follow national native politics very diligently until their native son Matthew Coon Come was elected National Chief. They’d heard of, thanks to our Mohawk brethren during the Oka Crisis, Ovide Mercredi.
Chances are the only other prominent Indians they could named were Chief Dan George and Crazy Horse. They might have remembered, vaguely, Bill Erasmus, who served as national chief in the 1980’s.
It was only when Coon Come defeated Phil Fontaine of Manitoba for National Chief in the year 2000 that many James Bay Cree heard, and quickly forgot, the name Phil Fontaine.
Now he’s back.
Who is Phil Fontaine and why is his name French? And, according to Matthew Coon Come and many others, why is he so cozy with the Federal government? We won’t even pretend to answer those questions here.
Larry Philip(Buddy) Fontaine was born at the Sagkeeng Anicinabe Nation on the Fort Alexander Reserve in Manitoba on September 20,
1944. He received his first schooling at the Assiniboia Residential School
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Phil Fontaine, Ojibway, 1944-
He completed an unprecedented three terms as National Chief of the Assembly of First Nations before stepping down in 2009. In 1973, Fontaine was elected Chief of the Sagkeeng community for two consecutive terms. Upon completion of his mandate, he and his family moved to the Yukon Territory where he as the Regional Director General with the Canadian government. Fontaine was one of the Manitoba aboriginal leaders who opposed the Meech Lake Accord. Following his first term as National Chief, Fontaine was appointed Chief Commissioner of the Indian Claims Commission and helped resolve the land claim of the Kahkewistahaw First Nation. A longer biography appears in Native Leaders of Canada.
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Phil Fontaine
Presently National Chief of the Assembly of First Nations, Fontaine has been one of the foremost First Nations leaders in Canada for decades. He played a pivotal role in exposing the abuses within the residential school system and made key contributions to the defeat of the Meech Lake Accord. Along with his work in achieving a framework agreement for self-government of Manitoba’s First Nations, Fontaine is a person who has made many positive contributions to Canada.
Devotion & Advocacy
Fontaine, a member of the Sagkeeng First Nation, is seen as the leader in Aboriginal self-governance in Manitoba. His devotion to the advocacy for the rights and well-being of First Nations communities as Grand Chief of the Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs and as National Chief of the Assembly of First Nations speaks highly to the dedication and talents he has brought to his work.
Crowning Achievement
The crowning achievement of his career to date, however, is leading the successful resolution and settlement of claims arising out of the 150-year Indian residential sch
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