The band councils.....
I just want to clarify. Just let me finish this for a second.
The band council was created by the Government of Canada to usurp the traditional forms of leadership. This is who the government chooses all the time, and they say to us, as traditional people, that this is the legal authority we recognize and it is their decisions.
If you look at just my community, one-third of the people who are registered band members actually vote. We have, within that, multiple people. It's traditional versus band council, when it's really a nation. This band council system does the bidding of the colonial governments. It has taken itself out of that canoe of the Two Row Wampum and become part of the colonial government, so they should not even be consulted.