Last week the Six Nations Elected council announced it was taking back responsibility for negotiating with the government over the Douglas Creek Estates site in Caledonia.
But on Tuesday, Mohawk Confederacy Chief Allen MacNaughton said it's business as usual for him.
"We will continue working," said the spokesman for the Confederacy council.
"(That decision) has nothing to do with me. I'm not controlled by the band council."
MacNaughton said the next step has yet to be determined but he plans on continuing with a scheduled meeting with a government representative later this month.
"Other than that, I have no comment."
In a news release, Chief Bill Montour said the decision to rescind council's four-year-old motion to recognize the Haudenosaunee Confederacy council as the lead in negotiations was "the right decision at this point."
Montour said the Confederacy team has had limited success over the course of four years and the negotiations aren't conducive to reaching a settlement.
"It was purely a process geared to give Ontario and Canada press communications," Montour said. "If pressed by Canadians to settled the issue of Caledonia and Six Nations (the governments could say) that Six Nations can't get its act together."
Last year, band council took its 1994 land claims lawsuit back to court after a break to try negotiations. Montour said the court will eventually order negotiations.
He said the band council wants to continue a relationship with the Confederacy, although, according to published accounts of the council meeting, Montour said he has concerns that the Confederacy is broke and hasn't enough chiefs to sign legal documents.
The same reports said some councillors expressed distrust of the Confederacy council, saying they have refused to meet with the elected group and have declined to work together.
Montour said his concern is founded in how the original agreement to negotiate about the Douglas Creek lands morphed over the years to talks about various other land claims.
"This has got to stop. We've got to start focusing on first of all the Douglas Creek Estates which was the cause of all the problems that went on, and come up with options to resolve that issue.
He said the elected council should re-establish a negotiating base for a "global settlement" where it would look at the return of lands that may become available and the return of funds that were taken from the Six Nations accounts.
The band council wants to settle land claims for money and then sign an agreement that would absolve Canada of further obligations in the claims.
The Confederacy council refuses to agree that the land claims can be settled with money.
The vote to rescind the Confederacy's lead in negotiations was passed 10-2.