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Perry Bellegarde, Cree, 1962-

He is a Canadian First Nations and Métis activist and politician, who was elected as national chief of the Assembly of First Nations on December 10, 2014.

A member of the Little Black Bear First Nation in Saskatchewan (Treaty 4), he has served as a band councillor in Little Black Bear, as chief of the Federation of Saskatchewan Indian Nations and as the Saskatchewan regional chief of the Assembly of First Nations.
After high school he attended the Saskatchewan Federated Indian College, and in 1984 Bellegarde became the first Treaty Indian to graduate from the University of Regina with a Bachelor of Administration.  Following his graduation, he worked as director of personnel for the Saskatchewan Indian Institute of Technologies, before joining the Touchwood–File Hills–Qu’Appelle Tribal Council in 1986.

In 1988, Bellegarde led negotiations to transfer management of the Fort Qu’Appelle Indian Hospital, where