Chief Dr. Robert Joseph, OBC, OC
"But if not for our children, what would our purpose be?"
Chief Joseph, a recipient of Indspire's LIfetime Achievement Award, and many other awards, was the co-founder and former Ambassador for Reconciliation Canada and a former member of the National Assembly of First Nations Elders Council. He was formerly the Executive Director of the Indian Residential School Survivors Society and is an honourary witness to Canada’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC). As Chairman of the Native American Leadership Alliance for Peace and Reconciliation and Ambassador for Peace and Reconciliation with the Interreligious and International Federation for World Peace (IFWP), Chief Joseph has sat with the leaders of South Africa, Israel, Japan, South Korea, Mongolia and Washington, DC to learn from and share his understanding of faith, hope, healing and reconciliation
