Kim Sigurdson is an Indigenous business man, journalist and advocate for Indigenous people.
Over the past 30 years he has worked with Aboriginal people in rural and remote communities in, economic development, infrastructure and trade. In his early years he worked for a family run construction business with his father across western Canada supervising a small crew of workers. He then moved to California and worked with a large construction company for several years in administration, estimating and supervising.

He went on to marketing fish and seafood and supplied over 80 restaurants in the Los Angeles, Palm Springs and San Diego areas purchasing freshwater fish from a number of Indigenous fishermen in NW Ontario. At the time, fishermen in western Canada were under a federal monopoly (Freshwater Fish Marketing Corporation) which drove prices down and would not allow native fishermen to sell or
process their own catch. Sigurdson became a strong advocate for the Indigenous fishermen in Manitoba and across Canada working with the Assembly of First Nations, Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs and Elijah Harper. The Freshwater Fish Marketing Board lost its monopoly in 2018.  Around that time, he began writing columns in various newspapers including the Winnipeg Free Press on these and other First Nation issues. Some were published in Israel, New York and throughout Canada.

In the 1990s Sigurdson started “Jay Treaty” in California which had “First Nations Trade Missions” where they would engage in business ventures with wealthy Native American Tribes in the USA. He hosted numerous “Trade Missions” to the United States (Los Angeles, San Diego Las Vegas and Washington) where delegations of Chiefs and Councilors from across Canada met with leaders of the above Tribes.

In the 2000s Sigurdson also worked with Canadian railways in remediation services and the disposal of scrap railway ties. He worked with Canadian Pacific Railway and Canadian National Railway in remediation services and the disposal of scrap railway tie and Supervised crews of First Nations people from across western Canada, Ontario and Quebec on the removal of power lines and poles with an unblemished safety record. As well, he administrated and supervised two large grinding operations, where his company grinding hundreds of thousands of ties in both British Columbia and Ontario. He still works closely with both railways on other interests as they relate to Indigenous people.

Over the past decade he has worked extensively in the “green revolution” to promote new and unique technologies that assist Indigenous people in the re‐building of their economies. His passion and focus are to utilize a variety of new technologies that can improve living conditions in these communities.  Technologies revolving around the basic needs of these communities; potable water, cleaning and recycling of waste water, municipal solid waste and more efficient ways of producing energy (heat and power). These technologies are the foundation of economic development that will ultimately raise the standard of living and provide meaningful
jobs for our people.

In the past few years he has dedicated much of his time to Co-chairing the Pikangikum Working Group and through the generous donations from Christian, Muslim and other organizations we have done some amazing things. Partners on some of theses initiatives are; Habitat for Humanity, Mennonite Central Committee and the Ontario Provincial Police, to name a few.

We have assisted Pikangikum First Nation in projects revolving around; water and sewer, a sawmill, a transition home and hundreds of thousands of dollars to various entities (school, health and economic development). The Pikangikum Group is now in the process of expanding our services to other First Nations in NW Ontario and working with the federal government on matching dollars and specific projects where we can better serve these First Nations.