1980: The Red Lake Council passed a resolution barring the news media from the reservation.[40]
1982: Another resolution barring the news media was passed.[41] Also in 1982, a BIA consultant reported, "The Red Lake court has never had a jury trial and juries were not being provided, even when requested by parties." [42] Around that time, an
[39] See
Reply of Superintendent, Red Lake Agency to Commission
Inquiry, reprinted
as Exhibit 5 to the Portland Hearing, supra note
25, at
139-43. A federal court hearing claims arising from these
incidents
describes in detail what it calls "the events on the day of the
uprising" in Red Lake Band of Chippewa Indians v. United States,
800 F.2d 1187, 1188-91 (D.C. Cir 1986). See also
Testimony of the
Red Lake Band of Chippewa Indians, printed in Washington D.C.
Hearing, supra
note 4 at 321, 327, where the tribe takes issue with this
characterization.
[40] Red Lake Band of Chippewa Indians
Resolution No.
36-80, reprinted as Exhibit 6 to the Portland Hearing,
supra note
25, at 151.
[41] Referred to in the letter to
Chairman
Roger Jourdain, from Dennis Whiteman, Superintendent, Red Lake Agency,
May 27,
1982, reprinted as Exhibit
4, Portland Hearing, supra note 25, at 126.
[42]
Schmickle & Buoen, Indians' rights are often denied in tribal
courts,
Minneapolis Star and Tribune, Jan. 5, 1986, at 1A, reprinted as
Washington,
D.C. Hearing, supra note 4, at 159; Nat'l Center for State Courts,
Red Lake
Court of Indian Offenses[:] Management Audit Technical Assistance
Report 13
(1928) (prepared by James Farrar and Priscilla Wilfart) (on file with
the
Commission). The Solicitor's Memorandum, supra note 38,
mentions the
denial of jury trials at the Red Lake court. See Testimony
of the
Red Lake
