What We Do

 

What is NWIC

The Northwest Indigenous Council is an organization where you can work alongside other urban and rural Indigenous peoples to ensure you have a legitimized voice and a place at the table to ensure your rights and aspirations are brought to important discussion in your neighbourhoods, cities, villages and the evolving Nation to Nation discourse.

The Northwest Indigenous Council’s governance includes an Annual General Meeting that takes place typically in January or February where all are welcome.

As a young organization, the NorthWest Indigenous Council has a volunteer working board with little operational funding. The Board of Directors is elected by, and accountable to, the organization’s membership.

The Northwest Indigenous Council hosts quarterly Board of Director meetings to identify priorities and develop a strategy moving forward on numerous key issues impacting the people the Northwest Indigenous Council seeks to advocate for.

Our Board

The Northwest Indigenous Council’s membership is structured using a regional representative system based on the BC First Nations Health Authority regions: Interior, Fraser, Vancouver Coastal, Vancouver Island, and Northern. We aim to have proportionate representation overall for the province and this is reflected by the composition of the Board of Directors, including an additional three Directors At Large.

Scott Clark

Coast Salish

PRESIDENT

AT LARGE

Jessica Savoy

Nisga’a Nations

VICE PRESIDENT

VANCOUVER COASTAL

PIROSKA POTORNAYL

Nisg’a

DIRECTOR

NORTH

Darian Edwards

 

SECRETARY

INTERIOR 

EDGARD VILLENUEVA-CRUZ

Taltan

DIRECTOR

NORTH

SYLVIA WILLIAM

DIRECTOR

FRASER VALLEY

RAINBOW EYES

DIRECTOR

AT LARGE

ROSE HENRY (osah)

DIRECTOR

VANCOUVER ISALND