THE FEARSOME "STAY AROUND THE FORTS" INDIAN TRIBE OF RED LAKE

Some facts???---oh no, not them--- about the Red Lake Indian Reservation [5,000 people live on more than 800,000 acres]: It is a hell hole of violence, drunkeness, inter tribal fighting, poverty, and one of the worst schools in the United States, and that is saying something.

In 1979, dissidents staged an insurrection after tribal leaders removed one of the dissidents' sympathizers from the Tribal Council. Five armed dissidents broke into the reservation's law enforcement center and took several hostages. The FBI quickly ordered all police and sheriff's officers off the reservation, saying they faced life-threatening gunfire.

With no police presence on the reservation, dissident tribal members captured the police department's weapons and raided the U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs storage area for confiscated liquor.

Then the insurgents set the law enforcement center on fire and went on a rampage of shooting and looting. The home of Roger Jourdain, who was then the tribal chairman, and other government buildings were burned to the ground.

When the rioting ended, two teenagers were dead of gunshot wounds, several were wounded and about $4 million in property was damaged, primarily by fire.

Five men were convicted and sentenced to prison in connection with the rioting.

It gets even better for this soverign nation that bars all outsiders whenever they choose and bars all outsiders from most of the reservation always. They are extreme racists too

In the 1980s, there was more unrest at the reservation over allegations of civil-rights abuses. Lawyers had been barred from tribal courts, and defendants were routinely denied bail, jury trials and other rights that federal laws were supposed to extend to Indians.

In 1986, a Red Lake band member, Gregory Good, accused Chief Tribal Judge George Sumner of running a court system that violated civil rights. One night after a dispute, Good shot Sumner to death. After hearing that Sumner had chased and beaten Good, a federal jury accepted arguments of self-defense and acquitted Good of homicide charges.

We should all face the fact that the reservation system is a form of aparthied, but one that these underachieving deadbeats want. Indians like this used to be called [by the (L)Dakota Sioux)] "stay around the forts" so named because instead of living like Indians they just hung around the forts begging for food and liquor. So there. The Stay Around the Forts have themselves a reservation with no competition from others. They have the formula for continuing failure, something the Liberals love.