Career
After work surveying and as a travelling salesman he gained success by opening a small shop "Le Huron" where he sold snowshoes, moccasins and other First Nation crafts and also managed a dance company. From 1964 to 1984, he was Grand Chief of the Huron-Wendat Nation. Between 1965 and 1976 he was successively a founding member, vice president and secretary-treasurer of the Association des Indiens du Québec
He was Director of the Assembly of First Nations for three years.
In 1983 and 1987, he represented First nation Quebecers at federal constitutional conferences on aboriginal law.
He was for five years Secretary of the Indian Advisory Council
He has been an administrator of the Aboriginal Economic Development Program
Director and Vice Chief of the Assembly of First Nations for 10 years
He has taken a more individualist approach to economic and social problems than most First Nations leaders. He also wrote an autobiography titled First Among the Huron.
