Tewanee Joseph impressed the world as the Executive Director for the Four Host First Nations Secretariat, when he gained recognition for Canada’s aboriginals on the international stage.  Joseph not only brought together the Lil’wat, Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh peoples, but also other First Nations, Inuit and Métis peoples across Canada, to ensure a prominent place for aboriginal culture at the Olympics.

Through his leadership, for the first time in Olympic history, a third brand was allowed on official Olympic communications:  the brand of the Four Host Nations Society.

As the Executive Director for the Four Host First Nations Secretariat, Tewanee worked with VANOC and its partners to develop meaningful Aboriginal participation in the planning, hosting and staging of the 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games.  He has collaborated extensively with First Nations in the area of community consensus building and provided advisory services to the private sector and local, provincial and federal governments.

Tewanee Joseph will be in Thunder Bay June 11 speaking at a conference of the Ontario Association of Community Futures Development Corporations (OACFDC).

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