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Neil J. Sterritt, President (njs@sterritt.com)
Neil holds a Diploma of Mining Technology
(BC Institute of Technology 1964-66). He worked in a technical
and management capacity with Amax Exploration Inc. in British
Columbia, the Yukon, Manitoba, Ontario, northern Quebec, northern
and southern Ireland and in Arizona, USA.
He was research director for the Gitksan-Wetsuweten
Tribal Council (1977-81), and president of the Tribal Council
(1981-87). He was one of the principal architects of the Delgamuukw
v. Queen aboriginal title court case, which was decided by
the Supreme Court of Canada in 1997.
He was Director of Self-government and Land
Claims for the Assembly of First Nations, Ottawa (1988-91)
and co-chair of the 1992 Federal-Provincial constitutional
round on aboriginal issues (Work Group III).
He recently co-authored Tribal Boundaries
in the Nass Watershed (UBC Press, 1998), which has been
reviewed as an important example of how to connect research
with elders and the contemporary issue of land claims overlaps.
He also authored the First Nations Governance Handbook:
A Resource Guide for Effective Councils (Canada: 2002),
which sets out best practices for First Nations leaders.
Based on his extensive
experience with traditional and contemporary governance, and
the First Nations Governance Handbook he authored, he was
invited in March-April 2002 to tour aboriginal communities
and organizations throughout Australia and then to present
in Canberra, ACT, several papers at two separate conferences:
one on aboriginal policy and the other on aboriginal governance.
Barbara E. Sterritt, Vice President/Secretary
(barb@sterritt.com)
Office manager, with over 30 years office
expertise, including financial management and payroll for
small business
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