They Made Me An Outlaw!: That's when I became a freedom fighter

Bill came into the world April 14, 1927, in his mother's country: Ktunaxa, or Kutenai. He became involved early in the political struggle between Indigenous Peoples and Canada, so his memoir spans more than seventy years of freedom fighting.

Deprived of Canadian recognition as a Status Indian, because his Kutenai mother married a non-native man, Bill's experience of discrimination and displacement led him to a strong belief in unity and Indigenous sovereignty.

His determination for freedom appeared at age eighteen when he was found criminally guilty of vagrancy, or, being an Indian in an alley at night in Vancouver. After breaking out of two prisons and winning a personal rebellion, Bill went on to serve the BC Association of Non-Status Indians, the United Native Nations, the process to amend the Canadian Constitution and enshrine Aboriginal self-government, the BC Native Housing Society, the Ts'peten Defenders, the Aboriginal Healing Foundation, and the public-at-large through Vancouver Co-op Radio.

At the age of 90 he is now involved in launching a new organization to advance the interests of the grassroots Aboriginal people - whether they are urban or rurally based, Status or Non-Status - and achieve recognition for the original nations.

The book includes news clippings and images of documents from 1927-2007, as well as excerpts from key historical texts as appendices.