Daphne Bramham: Hereditary chiefs demand their court-ordered right to be consulted

For most of the last 50 years, Indigenous people have tried to negotiate, litigate and protest their way to a new relationship with Canada.
In the past 21 years, they have won landmark rulings upholding their title to traditional territories, and their inherent rights including the right to self-government. Repeatedly, the Supreme Court has ruled that neither colonial policies nor post-Confederation legislation has extinguished any of those rights.
Those rights are enshrined in the Canadian cons