Stewart Phillip
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Chief Stewart Phillip is the current President of the Union of British Columbia Indian Chiefs.
Currently finishing a four year term as Chief of the Penticton Indian Band (PIB), Chief Stewart Phillip has served the Band as Chief on three separate occasions for a total of ten (10) years. In addition, he served as an elected Band Councilor for a 10-year period.
Further, over the last 30-year period, he has worked within the Penticton Indian Band Administration and held a variety of positions such as, Band Administrator, Director of Land Management, Education Counselor, Economic Development Officer and Band Planner.
Aside from serving as a member of the PIB council for a total of 20 years, he is proud to enter his third three-year term as the President of the Union of BC Indian Chiefs.
He has taken an active role in the defense of Aboriginal Title and Rights by readily offering support to Native communities in need. He has taken a personal approach seeing first-hand the impact of fish farms in the Broughton Archipelago, lobbying on Parliament Hill to defeat the First Nations Governance Act, standing with Elders of Treaty 8 against oil and gas development in the Peace River, burning referendum ballots with fellow chiefs in protest and has stood on the steps of the Legislature with 3000 other people united under the Title and Rights Alliance banner.
Chief Phillip has been married for twenty years to his wife Joan. They have four grown sons, two daughters, three granddaughters and three grandsons. He is currently enjoying his 17th year of sobriety. In this regard, he is a firm believer in leading by example.
