J. Wilton Littlechild CC AOE MSC KC (born 1944), known as Willie Littlechild, is a Canadian lawyer and Cree chief who was Grand Chief of the Confederacy of Treaty Six First Nations and a member of Parliament.
[2] He won the national Tom Longboat Award in 1967 and 1974,[6] and was one of the founders of the North American Indigenous Games, begun in 1990, Edmonton, Alberta.
Littlechild was the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada Member of Parliament for Wetaskiwin from 1988 to 1993.
The Indian Association of Alberta presents the Willie Littlechild Achievement Award to six First Nations students each year.
Littlechild was made a member of the Order of Canada in 1998 and was promoted to the rank of Companion in 2023.
[16] During Pope Francis' visit to Canada in 2022, Littlechild presented the Pontiff with a traditional Indian headdress, generating mixed reactions from the Indigenous community.