Turtle Talk removes briefs in Grand Ronde disenrollment dispute

Briefs filed in a disenrollment dispute within the Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde in Oregon are no longer available on Turtle Talk.

The blog was the only place on the Internet where source materials about the removals of the descendants of Chief Tumulth, who signed the 1855 Willamette Valley Treaty, could be found. But the information has been removed at the request of the Galanda Broadman law firm.

"At the behest of the Grand Ronde Tribal Government's legal counsel, we have removed from our firm's social media pages any links to certain legal briefs which were sealed under the Grand Ronde Tribal Court's order issued in September of 2014," attorney Gabe Galanda, an outspoken critic of disenrollment, said in an e-mail."We ask that you likewise remove any legal briefs from your pages. We regret the inadvertent disclosure of these legal briefs."

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