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Fight or submit : standing tall in two worlds / Grand Chief Ronald M. Derrickson.

by Derrickson, Ronald M.

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ECW Press, 2020.

971.104092 D438f

Derrickson, Ronald M.

Westbank First Nation -- Biography.

First Nations -- British Columbia -- Biography.

First Nations business enterprises.

Businessmen -- British Columbia -- Biography.

9781770415669 (hc.)

Alternate title:

Standing tall in two worlds

x, 268 p., 8 unnumbered pages of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm.

"In the opening to his memoir, Grand Chief Ron Derrickson says his "story is not a litany of complaints but a list of battles" that he has fought. And he promises he will not be overly pious in his telling of them. "As a businessman," he writes, "I like to give the straight goods." In Fight or Submit, Derrickson delivers on his promise and it turns out he has a hell of a story to tell. Born and raised in a tarpaper shack, he went on to become one of the most successful Indigenous businessmen in Canada. As a political leader, he served as Chief of the Westbank First Nation for a dozen years and was made a Grand Chief by the Union of British Columbia Indian Chiefs. Along the way, he has been the target of a full Royal Commission and an assassination attempt by a hitman hired by local whites. As Chief, he increased his community's revenues by 3500% and led his people into a war in the forest over logging rights. In 2015, he became an award-winning author when Unsettling Canada: A National Wake-Up Call, a book he co-authored with Arthur Manuel, won the Canadian History Association Literary Award. His second book co-authored with Manuel, Reconciliation Manifesto, won the B.C. Book Prize for non-fiction."-- From publisher.

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