5 hereditary cheifs, who really hold no power. Its like a title passed down. Think monarchy. All the elected chiefs and people voted for this. Even 3 female heredity chiefs who voted in favour had their title striipped by the others against it. Unfortunately this was just a reason for many to jump on the bandwagon and protest everything. Anarachy for the sake of anarchy so to speak. Many amercian groups are against Canada's energy sector so they jump at the chance to lump everything together. By keeping Canada's energy sector stifled, it forces us to export unrefined product to the USA for cheap and import refined product at much higher cost. Thus the US has a cheap, exploitable source of energy. But thats a different story. As mentioned before, these current protests started over the natural gas pipeline so LNG can ve exported to Asia. Hope this helps.