In Memory: George Manuel, Secwépemc (Shuswap)
Leader and Author, Grand Chief George Manuel, led multiple Indigenous organizations, local, national and international.
Grand Chief George Manuel passed on 15 November 1989. He was a Secwépemc leader who led multiple Indigenous organizations, local, national and international. He was a president of the National Indian Brotherhood of Canada (now Assembly of First Nations) and founded the World Council of Indigenous Peoples.
George Manuel’s seminal 1974 (2019) book, The Fourth World: An Indian Reality, was the first to develop the concept of the “fourth world” as an alternative to the ‘new world’, the ‘old world’, and the ‘third world’.
