Turtle Mountain Chippewa Indians v. Port [1]

In May 2007, the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians banished Robert Port from the tribe's lands for publishing an article, "The Appalling State of North Dakota Indian Reservations [2]," on the Dakota Beacon [3] website and on his own blog, Say Anything Blog [4].  The banishment order [5] also alleged that comment threads on the Say Anything Blog included "anti-Indian and anti-reservation comments," including that "reservation peoples are living on the Government's 'welfare tit.'"  The order also purported to require the Dakota Beacon and its editor, Steve Cates, to publicly retract the article.