The Union of Ontario Indians is an Aboriginal political organization representing 42 member First Nations in the Canadian province of Ontario. It was formed in 1919 and incorporated in 1949, to serve as a political advocate and secretariat for the Anishinabek Nation. The head office for the Union of Ontario Indians is located at Nipissing First Nation near North Bay, Ontario.
The union is guided by a board of directors, who meet at least four times a year. For administrative purposes, the organization has divided Ontario into four regions: Northern Superior, Lake Huron, Southeast, and Southwest. Each region elects, every two years, a regional grand chief and a board member to the board of directors. Additionally an elder may appointed to the board of directors by a region, and this appointment is for life. They represent about 42,000 members, about one-third of the aboriginal population within the borders of Ontario. Leading the organization are a grand council chief (currently Patrick Madahbee), a deputy grand chief (currently Glen Hare), and a grand council elder (currently Flora Tobobondung).
Famous quotes containing the words union of, union and/or indians:
“The union of hands and hearts.”
—Jeremy Taylor (1613–1667)
“At all events, as she, Ulster, cannot have the status quo, nothing remains for her but complete union or the most extreme form of Home Rule; that is, separation from both England and Ireland.”
—George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)
“On a late-winter evening in 1983, while driving through fog along the Maine coast, recollections of old campfires began to drift into the March mist, and I thought of the Abnaki Indians of the Algonquin tribe who dwelt near Bangor a thousand years ago.”
—Norman Mailer (b. 1923)