FIGHT OR SUBMIT
From the award-winning author of Unsettling Canada: A National Wake Up Call and Reconciliation Manifesto comes an inspiring memoir of assassination attempts, poverty, hard work and success.
After it’s October 27, 2020 release, the book’s publisher reports all hard copies of the book have been sold.
Fight or Submit; Standing Tall in Two Worlds exceeded planned sales and additional hard copy printings are in progress. In the opening to his memoir, Grand Chief Ron Derrickson says his “story is not a litany of complaints but a list of battles” that he has fought. And he promises he will not be overly pious in his telling of them. “As a businessman,” he writes, “I like to give the straight goods.”
In Fight or Submit, Derrickson delivers on his promise and it turns out he has a hell of a story to tell. Born and raised in a tarpaper shack, he went on to become one of the most successful Indigenous businessmen in Canada. As a political leader, he served as Chief of the Westbank First Nation for a dozen years and was made a Grand Chief by the Union of British Columbia Indian Chiefs.
He has been the target of a full Royal Commission and an assassination attempt by a hitman hired by local whites. As Chief, he increased his community’s revenues by 3500% and led his people in a successful effort to reclaim logging rights. This is the determined and direct story of an Indigenous entrepreneur who, in the face of hatred and violence, always lifted his community up and had fun along the way.
GRAND CHIEF RONALD M. DERRICKSON
Grand Chief Ronald Derrickson is the Owner and President of RMD Group and one of the most successful Indigenous entrepreneurs in Canada. After being elected Chief of Westbank First Nation in 1976, he began to use his business experience to lift his community out of poverty, eventually making it one of the wealthiest bands in the country. He served as Chief of the Westbank First Nation from 1976 to 1986 and from 1996 to 1998. He was made Grand Chief by the Union of BC Indian Chiefs in 2012. In 2015, he became an award-winning author when Unsettling Canada A National Wake-up Call, a book he co-authored with Arthur Manuel, won the Canadian History Association Literary Award. His second book co-authored with Manuel, Reconciliation Manifesto, went on to win the BC Book Prize for Nonfiction and appeared on the best books of 2017 lists of the Globe and Mail, Quill and Quire and the Writer’s Trust. Derrickson released his personal memoir Fight or Submit on October 27,2020.
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Amazon Canada https://www.amazon.ca/Fight-Submit-Standing-Tall-Worlds/dp/1770415661
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Indigo
https://www.chapters.indigo.ca/en-ca/books/fight-or-submit-standing-tall/9781770415669-item.html
Additional Information
Ron Derrickson Wiki https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_Derrickson
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