Konrad Sioui (born in 1953) was the Grand Chief (french: Grand Chef) of Wendake, a native reserve that is an enclave within what is now

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, Canada. He succeeded Max Gros-Louis in 2008. Sioui is a

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of the Bear Clan of the Huron-Wendat Nation. He represented the

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in Geneva from 1985 to 1992 while being the official and national spokesperson on constitutional reform issues between 1984 and 1994. He was a candidate in the AFN's 1994 leadership convention, but lost to

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R. v. Sioui

In ''R. v. Sioui'', known as the Sioui Decision, Sioui won a unanimous decision at the Supreme Court of Canada in 1991. The ruling acknowledged that a 1760 document signed between British General James Murray and the Huron band, the Huron-British Treaty of 1760, is still valid as it was an international agreement entered into between sovereign nations.

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