Wilson, born in the Vancouver Island community of Comox in 1944, has died at the age of 80
Bill Wilson, the fiery hereditary chief from Vancouver Island who helped ensure Indigenous title to traditional lands and treaty rights for both men and women were enshrined in Canada ’s Constitution, has died at the age of 80.“His life was one of leadership and striving to make change … and change he did make,” she. “He taught us well, and we strive to honour all he gave us by carrying on his work.
Mr. Wilson, born in the Vancouver Island community of Comox in 1944, came from an influential family of activists among the Kwakwaka’wakw tribes of northern Vancouver Island. His grandfather was a storied medicine man. Ethel Pearson, his mother, was a respected force within the Kwak´wala culture who brought her young son along on the front lines when she protested for her nation’s rights and title.
“Questions based on REASON were not welcome there. Never ‘learned my lesson’ and kept asking them. Cost me many associations and jobs, but that never stopped me,” he recalled.
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