Bob Joseph

Robert "Bob" Joseph is an Indigenous Canadian who inherited a chief's seat in the Gayaxala (Thunderbird) clan, the first clan of the Gwawa'enuxw, one of the eighteen tribes that make up the Kwakwakaʼwakw. His chief name is K’axwsumala’galis, which, loosely translated, means "whale who emerges itself from the water and presents itself to the world."