Extended interviews with people from the 8th Fire TV series.
Clarence Louie is Chief of the Osoyoos Indian Band, a community in British Columbia's Okanagan Valley, a position he has held since 1985.
He is one of Canada's most high profile Aboriginal leaders and has made a name for himself as a successful entrepreneur and a proponent of economic self reliance for the Aboriginal community.
He was twenty-four years old and a graduate of Native studies when he began his first term as chief.
He wanted pull his reserve out of its poverty, and he concluded that the solution lay in diversified economic development.
Twenty-five years later, Chief Louie has built and attracted numerous businesses on the reserve. They range from the Nk'Mip Cellers (the first Aboriginal owned winery in North America), a golf course, a construction company and retail stores.
He was interviewed for the 8TH Fire television series and appears in episode three, Whose land is it Anyway? . Here are highlights from an extended interview -in which he addresses the Indian Act, private land ownership, and his philosophy regarding economic development strategies in Aboriginal communities.
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