Calvin Helin, a member of the Tsimshian Nation, comes from the community of Lax Kw’alaams on the Northwest coast of British Columbia, Canada. The son of a hereditary chief, Helin works as an attorney and entrepreneur. He has written several publications on law, Aboriginal business, and associated issues, and has developed an international reputation through his best-selling book, Dances with Dependency: Out of Poverty through Self-Reliance, originally published in 2006.
Helin runs business enterprises that include the Eagle Group of Companies, LLC, and the Native Investment and Trade Association. He holds a directorship on the Vancouver Board of Trade, GeoScience BC, and the Canada-China Resource Development Foundation. He has received top “40 Under 40″ awards for both British Columbia and nationally for Canada. He has served as chairman of a recent Aboriginal trade delegation to China and introduced an innovative business model to promote long-term benefits to Aboriginal people from natural resource development.
Helin also serves as president and advisory board member of the SOS Children’s Village. He teaches at the Shudokan Karate and Education Society, a group he founded in 2002 that provides free martial arts lessons to disadvantaged inner-city children as a way of teaching them discipline, manners, self-respect, and other important life lessons.
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Hello Calvin,
It was good speaking with you…
I would like to continue to discuss your
Here’s a link to the most recent audio work I did with David Bouchard: http://www.streamworks.ca/ASX/nokum_english_320x240.asx The visuals for the above file were added by the Publisher.
Cheers.
Geoff Edwards
http://www.streamworks.ca
Dear Mr Helin,
we are a small Swiss NGO specialising in Economic Development for Amerindians (see our website at http://www.edai-ch.org). We have come across your book Dances with Dependency and are very much impressed. So the question arose whether it might be possible to get the copyright from you to post talks, papers, extracts from the book, audio files, etc. on our website (or at least link to them). I therefore would very much appreciate a response from you, potentially with relevant links and/or files.
Many thanks indeed and best wishes
Rolf Jucker
Hello Rolf.Further to your email to
Calvin Helin,Author of Dances with
Dependency.Calvin has asked that I try
and get additional information about your
NGO.We usually are happy to work with
organization striving for the same result…
a better life of First Nations people.
We have just come through some very busy
times and apologize for the lateness of
this reply.Thanks,Tony Mayer-Spiritorca