Ovide mercredi biography of mahatma

Chief of the Assembly of First Nations and politician in Canada

Ovide William MercrediOC OM (born January 30, 1946) is a Canadianpolitician. He is Cree and a former National Chief of the Assembly of First Nations.

Ovide mercredi biography of mahatma

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He is also the former president of the Manitoba New Democratic Party.

Early life and career

A Cree, Ovide Mercredi was born in the Grand Rapids reserve of the Misipawistik Cree Nation, in central Manitoba.

But he lived outside the reserve because his mother was stripped of her Indian status when she married a Métis (a person of mixed indigenous and European descent).^[2] Mercredi attended the University of Manitoba and graduated with a degree in law in 1977.

While a student he became President of the first native students' association formed in Canada. He was elected Regional Chief of the Assembly of First Nations for Manitoba in 1989. Mercredi had specialized in constitutional law, and became a key strategist^{[citation needed}