title: Annita McPhee
text: # Annita McPhee
  
  Annita McPhee is the former three-term president of the Tahltan Nation in British Columbia, Canada. She was also named National Native Role Model by Governor-General Adrienne Clarkson in 2000 and won the Aboriginal Woman of Distinction Award.
  
  ## Education
  
  McPhee attended the University of Victoria law school and Thompson Rivers University social work school. Her family placed a strong emphasis on education.
  
  ## Political career
  
  McPhee was a key player in negotiating more than $2 billion in agreements for the Tahltan Nation over the Northwest Transmission Line, BC Hydro and AltaGas projects within their territory. She also helped negotiate self-determination and taxation revenue-sharing projects. She also helped secure and protect the Sacred Headwaters from coalbed methane extraction and to save the headwaters of 3 major salmon bearing rivers; the Stikine, Skeena, and the Nass.
  
  On April 4, 2019, McPhee signed papers to seek the New Democratic Party candidacy in the Canadian federal riding of Skeena—Bulkley Valley.
  
  