(a) The Yurok Constitution, Article IV, Section 5, authorizes the Council to “provide for the exclusion of persons and/or entities from Tribal affairs and/or Tribal Territory under appropriate circumstances”;

(b) The Yurok Constitution, Article IX, provides that “the Tribe shall not deprive any person within its jurisdiction of the rights reflected in the Indian Civil Rights Act, 25 U.S.C. Section 1301 et seq.”;

(c) The Indian Civil Rights Act provides that “[n]o Indian Tribe in exercising powers of self-government shall . . . deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of its laws or deprive any person of liberty or property without due process of law . . . [or] pass any bill of attainder”;

(d) Exclusion is a traditional Yurok cultural remedy;

(e) Tribal Council has provided for exclusion of persons from the Yurok Reservation and lands as a remedy in several ordinances, but it retains ultimate authority to exclude persons;

(f) Tribal Council desires to formalize standards and procedures for exclusions; and

(g) Exclusion is an extraordinary power and should only be used to address the most serious behavioral breaches. [Ord. 80 § 1002, adopted, 10/6/2022.]