Chief Del Riley is a Hereditary Crane Clan Chief, former leader of the National Indian Brotherhood, past president of the Union of Ontario Indians, and past chairman of the World Council of Indigenous Peoples.
Among Chief Riley’s many contributions, he helped to author and negotiat Sections 25 and 35 of the Canadian Constitution as the President of the National Indian Brotherhood. Section 35 is credited with winning over 270 Aboriginal and Treaty rights court cases and was recently used a defense to have charges dismissed in a Constitutional Challenge against newly imposed Canadian Cannabis laws.
In this video, recorded in December 2021, Chief Del Riley speaks about the Canadian Constitution, Aboriginal Rights, and Cannabis.