Siksika elder and well-known activist for Indigenous communities dies – Calgary Herald

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A former Siksika chief and elder is being remembered for his activism for Indigenous communities.

Roy Little Chief died Thursday at age 81.

For more than 50 years, Little Chief worked to promote the rights of Indigenous communities across Canada, according to a news release from Siksika Nation on behalf of Little Chief’s family.

Following in the footsteps of his maternal grandfather, Eagle Rib — who signed Treaty 7 — Little Chief became a leader in his community and was first elected to the Siksika Nation Council in a byelection that led to his election as chief from 1981 to 1983.

Little Chief was born Aug. 26, 1938, in the Blackfoot Hospital at the Siksika Nation. He was educated in residential schools at Crowfoot-Blackfoot, Erminskin-Hobbema and St. Thomas College in North Battleford, Sask.

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