Mas Gak: The fish is ours, the resources are ours. That it isn’t only
just on the reserves, as the federal government is saying and what the province
is saying. We’ve been saying that the fish belongs to us based on the
territorial holdings in each of our Houses now. The common belief that is held
by a lot of the people from outside is that the Indian government and the Indian
jurisdiction and the Indian authority that we have here is non-existent. That’s
not true. The land tenure system that we have, some of the traditional laws
that we have, are still in practice today. The whole notions of the House territories,
the notions of the authority of the individual chiefs, is still recognized today
and people have to appreciate that.