The “obstructionist” profile of Grace Vickers
Walking in the footsteps of her father who retired from the Skeena Watershed Conservation Coalition Grace has taken over and working her way up inside this organization. She is also a member of the Lax’yip Firekeepers another media label created in the boardrooms of the Skeena Watershed Conservation Coalition working hand in hand with a small group that have taken over the Kispiox Band Council. Grace Vickers is a NOT member of the Gitxsan First Nations.
Take that with a grain of salt, as Gitxsan follow matrilineal rules to determine what clan they belong to. We know her father is Roy Vickers, and her mother is a white colonial, so what clan does she really belong to? Roy Henry Vickers is a renowned Canadian First Nations artist of mixed Tsimshian, Haida, and Heiltsuk ancestry. Born in British Columbia, he was raised in the Gitxaala (Tsimshian) community of Kitkatla and also holds a hereditary Chieftainship
