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Roger Jordan wasn't someone who shied away from a fight, especially when that fight

involved his home.

Home was a reservation called Red Lake, located in a remote part of Northern Minnesota.

There carved out an area about the size of Rhode Island.

And from the time he was a kid growing up in the 1920s, Roger had a sense it was a special place.

Not just because it was the same place his father, his father's father, and generations

of Ojibwe before them had lived.

But also because his tribe, the Red Lake Band of Ojibwe, owned the land, all of it.

They had a level of independence that was almost unparalleled.

A fact he would make sure to share every chance he got once he became the first elected tribal

chairman of Red Lake.

He held that post for three decades.

And he had to steward Red Lake through a lot of big changes and constant pressures on

their land.

He'd often travel to the state capital and sometimes to the nation's capital to fight back

against those pressures.

And he would intentionally instead of going like down Highway 10 corridor, he would have

them drive across the Leech Lake Reservation.

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