If tribal police were somehow required, he said, the project would pay for them.

In one story, a young Indian challenges a member of the tribal police to a basketball game.

He also supervised the tribal police of about 300 men.

The tribal police, Federal agents and the state police sealed off the area today.

In 2004, the tribal police filed 3,500 court cases.

Donnie Belcourt had no phone, so the message arrived through the tribal police.

"This is Mohawk land," he said, although agents from both countries and the tribal police watch it closely.

"Are you thinking of someday joining the tribal police?"

Ashe was, by all previous standards, a highly regarded member of the tribal police.

"Why didn't she call the tribal police, or me?"