Stan Dixon

Works by Stan Dixon:

• Self-Government, A Spirit Reborn
• K'watamus Speaks: Book One
• K'watamus Speaks: Book Two

First elected as Chief of the Sechelt Indian Band in 1983, Stan Dixon laid the groundwork for local Aboriginal self-government which was formally achieved in Sechelt in 1986-the year he failed to gain re-election. His privately published memoir of those turbulent times is Self-Government, A Spirit Reborn (1986).

Born in 1942 as a member of the Sechelt Nation, Hunaechin tribe, Wolf Clan, Dixon attended St. Augustine School in Sechelt and St. Mary's Residential School in Mission. He graduated from St. Thomas Aquinas High School in North Vancouver as one of its first Aboriginal students. After working in the logging industry for 25 years, he was elected as a councillor of the Sechelt First Nation in 1972. In 1992 he acquired proprietorship of the Aboriginal newspaper Kahtou and moved its headquarters to Sechelt. In 1993, Dixon was elected again as a Councillor to the District of Sechelt, and has been re-elected several times since. He continued publishing Kahtou for more than ten years without a loan or grant.