A First Nation chief with long grey hair tied back in a braid shakes hands with a man with short grey hair wearing a blue suit inside the foyer of the Supreme Court of Canada.

Canada is expected to present a settlement offer this week to First Nations of Robinson Superior treaty territory in a longstanding case involving annuities owed to the Anishinaabe on the northern shores of the Great Lakes. One of their legal counsels says the First Nations are in a good bargaining position after the Supreme Court found Canada and Ontario to be dishonourable treaty partners.