Greg Sarazin - CHIEF

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Chief Greg Sarazin resides in Pikwakanagan with his wife Helen and youngest son Kaleb.  Together they have a blended family of seven children and seven grandchildren.

He was raised in close connection to the land by his father Stanley and mother Jacqueline.  He lived and learned traditional ways from an early age including traditional arts and crafts, participating in Pikwakanagan’s early Pow Wows as a dancer and accompanying his father on the hunt and on the trapline.  Chief Sarazin continues to be an avid outdoorsman, hunting, fishing, trapping and gathering.

He is a traditional artisan and traditional Algonquin birch bark canoe builder, an art that he learned from his parents.

He is a published author, having penned “220 years of Broken promises”, a chapter in “Drumbeat: Anger and Renewal in Indian Country”, that details the history of broken promises made to the Algonquins of the Ottawa Valley by the Crown.

Chief Sarazin has served Pikwakanagan in many roles, having been elected as Council Member for the Algonquins of Pikwakanagan First Nation in the early 1980’s and in the 1990’s and he was elected Chief in 1987.  In 1988 he was elected by his peers as Grand Chief of the Southeast Anishinabek Nation.

He was Chief Negotiator of the Algonquin Treaty Negotiations from 1991 to 2001 and was most recently elected Chief of Pikwakanagan in 2023, a post that he currently holds.  Along with being the Chief, he is also an Algonquin Negotiation Representative and is currently one of the “Lead” negotiators for the Algonquin Treaty Negotiations.