Original sentence: Call for Hereditary Chiefs and Councils to act.However, the original governance structure for the Cat Lake peoples were altered with the 1905 Treaty 9, and then the Indian Act brought in other leaders from other areas as chiefs for the Cat Lake First Nation.Roles of Hereditary Chiefs and Councils.The original governance system of the community was that based on the doodem-system, where the hereditary council was established by the families of the appropriate clans, overseen by a hereditary chief
Edited sentence: History of Governance.Many more others came after that era.References to avoid confusion of who has the real role in the community.That is what Cat Lake First Nations history needs to hold onto, and educate its members as well as in classrooms and in other institutions.The first hereditary council was established by families (before treaty 1905) as to where the community of cat lake first nations would be founded.There were other Chiefs before him, such people as Simon Wesley formally from Lac Seul, but from the Fort Albany territory near James Bay and Hudson’s Bay.These times in history also determine, effect or place an impact overall on how Cat Lake later governs itself as it was in BC out near the west coast, where their governance got distorted, distorted internally by government bureaucracy, bureaucracy that is leaning only to be fitting for the Provincial and Federal governments, and not towards First Nations.founding fathers of council were as follows; Teepayyok, Sakakeesic...those were the first founding members who were selected by the families that were already present, they were directed as hereditary clan leaders, today we understand as Chiefs/Hereditary status, and that is the original founded leadership structure in cat lake first nation, and from there, treaty of 1905 and Indian Act brought in other leaders such as Simon Oombash who represented the position as Chief under the Indian Act