President of the Nisga'a Tribal Council Joe Gosnell is congratulated by Governor General Adrienne Clarkson after being invested into the Order of Canada at a ceremony in Ottawa on May 31, 2001. Joe Gosnell, a renowned treaty negotiator, politician and leader of the Nisga'a Nation, has died at the age of 85. A statement from the Nisga'a Lisims government of northwestern British Columbia says Gosnell died in his home in New Aiyansh after a long battle with cancer. A hereditary Nisga'a chieftain of the Eagle Clan, Gosnell was president of the nation when it signed the landmark Nisga'a Final Agreement in 2000. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Tom Hanson