According to the history of our tribe, our grandparents created Tribal Land Enterprise as a way to fight back against the Bureau of Indian Affairs’ mismanagement of our individual land assignments.

It is shameful that TLE has become a corrupt and incompetent organization that preys on vulnerable tribal citizens by stealing our land from us.

In 1934, the Rosebud Sioux Tribal Council (the Indian Reorganization Act government that replaced our traditional government) created TLE to “remedy the situation of increasing fractionation of ownership interests in allotted lands resulting from probate procedure and to provide a plan to consolidate individual ownership interest in restricted land in furtherance of economic enterprises.”

Allegedly, tribal citizens who “participate in this plan share the preservation and safeguarding of the values in ownership with equities in land. TLE  provides a simplified process by which an individual may exchange his landholdings for areas adapted to his ambitions for economic enterprise through the flexible use of certificates of interest in the Tribal Land Enterprise.”

We represent the tribal citizens whose land has been stolen by TLE, its board of directors, its staff and its co-conspirators who kept silent over the decades.

We stand for our relatives, for the people, in the effort to reclaim our land from the corrupt tribal agency known as TLE.

Hecegla.