Vote For Real Change

• For those who don't know me, I was raised by my mother, Victoria Nippi, and am the grandson of Stella Nippi and Walter Taysup. Many of you may have known my aunties and uncles: Adeline, Gena, Barney, and Gerald.
• I was raised traditionally, participate in sweat lodges, sacraficed at Sundances, carry a pipe and serve the Creator. These sacred teachings and ceremonies is what helped me on my healing journey to become the man I am today. It is my oath and it's the guiding principil of my life.
• I'm someone who speaks up and takes action when something needs to change. It is my desire to help the community address the issues we are currently facing. I don't pretend to have all the answers, but I believe that I do possess the right skill sets to help navigate us through our current predicaments.
• Everything I have built in my professional career started from the ground up. I began my working life in a retirement home caring for Elders, and later worked as a maintenance technician responsible for maintaining over 200 high-scale residential units. From there, I entered the trades as a painting contractor, worked my way up to project manager, and eventually launched my own contracting company, scaling operations across three provinces. While running that business, I dedicated myself to studying machine learning and deep learning systems engineering, which led me to found my own software and analytics company. Whether it is caring for Elders, maintaining housing infrastructure, managing multi-province construction projects, or engineering modern financial and software systems, I have done the hands-on work at every level.
• Outside of my professional career, I am a proud husband of 15 years and a father. My family has played a significant role in shaping the person and leader I am today. Being a husband and father has taught me patience, compassion, accountability, sacrifice, and the importance of leading by example. It has taught me that leadership isn't about having authority over people, it's about earning their trust, supporting them, and being someone they can depend on.
• A Chief is a servant and trustee of the people. When you take the Yellow Quill Oath of Office, you swear a sacred promise: to uphold and abide by our Nation’s laws and policies, to honour, respect, and support our Elders, and to treat our council colleagues, our employees, and every single member of this Nation with dignity and respect. To me, those aren't just words you recite on swearing-in day, they are the standard I will live by every single day.
• I humbly ask for your vote and for you to support me as Chief, not just to win an election, but so we can finally open our books, protect our Elders and children, and build a safe, united, and prosperous Yellow Quill First Nation for the next seven generations. No more empty promises, vote for transparency, thank you.

Measurable Results

• Administrative reform comes first. The Financial Administration Law 2014 already requires annual audits, remuneration schedules, and a functioning Finance and Audit Committee. Those requirements will be enforced, the missing 2024–25 and 2025–26 audits will be completed and posted, and every member—on reserve or urban—will have access without a gag form. Favouritism ends when the rules apply to everyone and the books stay open.
• The Master Trust will be amended. The current agreement contains pathways that allow Capital to leave the protected account without a Membership vote. Those pathways will be closed. Principal-protected accounts for children will be locked, and no draw or equity transfer will occur without the approvals the membership sets.
• Corporate restructuring follows. Yellow Quill Property Management, Resources, Agricultural, and related entities will have independent directors, clear registered offices, and published reporting. Yellow Quill Development will be rebuilt as a construction company positioned to bid on provincial tenders. The work stays with Yellow Quill members and businesses first. On-reserve members gain local jobs and training. Urban members gain contracting and employment pathways tied to the same companies.
• Education will be overhauled. The school is in trouble. Curriculum, staffing, and facilities will be reviewed against actual outcomes, not announcements. Language and trades streams will be restored so students on reserve and those returning from urban schools have a clear path. Parents in both places will see the same standards and the same reporting.
• Treaty and territorial integrity will be protected in writing. A Yellow Quill Constitution will be drafted and put to the membership. Land management and resource laws will be modernized so decisions on TLE lands, development, and revenue stay with the Nation and cannot be altered by a simple BCR. On-reserve members keep control of the land they live on. Urban members keep a documented claim to the same territory and the same benefits.