Smitheram, Henry Arthur "Butch"

SMITHERAM, Henry Arthur "Butch," aboriginal activist (b 8 Jan 1918, Penticton; d 14 Mar 1982, Keremeos). He was deprived of official Indian status when his mother, a member of the OKANAGAN First Nation, married an Englishman. After dropping out of high school he worked at a variety of jobs until he joined the federal Department of Indian Affairs. At KAMLOOPS he became the first aboriginal person in western Canada to be an assistant Indian agent. After returning to school and attending UBC, he...

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