By Cheryl Jahn

Meet the new Lheidli T’enneh Chief and Council

Apr 11, 2025 | 3:28 PM

PRINCE GEORGE – The daycare adjacent too The Exploration Place is just one of the many achievements by the Lheidli T’enneh First Nation. It is Dolleen Logan’s third term as Chief, which is historic in and of itself. And she has a mission, beyond the day care.

“I think the main one that has been turned into a passion is for centre of excellence,” says Logan. “So we’d have everyone under one roof, like Carrier Sekani, health psychologists, psychiatrists, drug and alcohol therapists and a person to help fill out forms. But just all in one area, all in one house.”

Councillor Crystal Gibbs won a seat at the table by a landslide. It is her third term as Councillor and she is joining four newbies around the table. In her words, an exciting time.

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“I think we will be a really good team to push the nation forward. My plan is to continue the work we started. There’s a process to everything, you know. Houses don’t build themselves. Infrastructure has to be put in the ground. That’s what we’re doing right now.”

Alongside Chief Logan, two former chiefs are now on Council, one of whom is Clay Pountney, who is no stranger to politics, having run for the NDP in the last provincial election. He says he also has plans. “You have to look at everything as a whole. Before I focused a lot on education, a lot of that kind of went by the wayside after the special advisors came out. I would like to get a lot more homes on reserve and offers are if we have members everywhere, we have members in Vancouver, and Edmonton. So we need to help support our members that are living everywhere. It’s essentially bringing a quality of life to everybody and just kind of raising it up a little bit where you can and gentle nudges.”

And not so much as a gentle nudge, the Lheidli T’enneh is forging ahead with economic development. Late last year, the province announced a number of energy projects.

“So that’s that’s going to be exciting. So that’s going to be exciting. Hopefully, they start breaking ground this spring. We’ve been working with Ecoener and they have a lot of new projects. They have shown us their wind project, their solar projects, their hydroelectric and more stuff is excitingly new stuff that we could bring to our territory.”

The band is also working with Indigenous and Native Affairs Canada to lengthen the terms that Chief and Council preside, which is currently two years.