Squamish Nation Trust

Tewanee Joseph

Executive Director and CEO, Four Host First Nations Secretariat

Tewanee Joseph is the Executive Director and Chief Executive Officer for the Four Host First Nations Secretariat for the 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games. Tewanee is working with VANOC and its partners to ensure unprecedented Aboriginal participation in the planning, hosting and staging of the 2010 Games.

During his career, Tewanee specialized in public relations, communications and strategic planning. He has worked extensively with First Nations in the area of community consensus building, as well as providing advisory services to the private sector, and local, provincial and federal governments. A member of the Squamish Nation, Tewanee continues to work with several First Nations - as well as his own, to develop strategies that will improve community wide decision-making.

Tewanee served eight years on the Squamish Nation Council and has a talent for facilitation and coordinating diverse groups to identify and achieve their goals. He has utilized his skills and now owns and operates a Consulting Group that has contributed to a broad range of initiatives including First Nations federal legislation, First Nations Land Management, Strategic Communications and Governance.

Tewanee has been actively involved in sports throughout his life and took an interest in lacrosse at an early age. He served as captain of the North Shore Indians Lacrosse Club of the West Coast Senior Lacrosse League for 8 years.

He has been fortunate enough to win four national championships in box and field lacrosse and had the opportunity to represent Canada on a Junior National team in 1989 as well as the Iroquois Nationals at the 1994 Commonwealth Games in Victoria.

Tewanee’s father is Kevin Rongonui. In the late 1960’s and early 1970’s, he performed in a music band called the “Quintikis.”