Statutes | Sisseton-Wahpeton Oyate of the Lake Traverse Reservation Tribal Code Chapter 52 Title II ยง 52-08-01 | 2018

Violation of one of the following orders issued in accordance with the SWST Domestic Violence Ordinance is a misdemeanor.


1. An order enjoining the respondent from threatening to commit or committing acts of domestic violence against the petitioner or other family or household member.
2. An order prohibiting the respondent from harassing, annoying, telephoning, contacting, or otherwise communicating verbally or in writing with the petitioner directly or indirectly through family members, relations by marriage, friends, and co-workers.
3. An order removing and excluding the respondent from the residence of the petitioner.
4. An order requiring the respondent to stay away from the residence, school, place ofemployment, or a specified place frequented regularly by the petitioner and any named family or household member.
5. An order granting temporary custody and child support regarding children, denying visitation or outlining specific visitation conditions and restrictions, including supervised visitation.
6. An order prohibiting the respondent from using or possessing a firearm or other weapon specified by the court.
7. An order requiring the respondent to attend domestic violence classes.
8. An order requiring the respondent to obey all laws of the Sisseton-Wahpeton Sioux Tribe. 

The petitioner who is granted an order for protection cannot violate or be arrested for a violation of her/his own order for protection.


Any person granted a civil or criminal order of protection from the Sisseton-Wahpeton Sioux Tribal Court or any other court of competent jurisdiction cannot be punished for a violation of that order for protection under this ordinance. It shall not be a defense to a charge of violation of an order for protection under this section that the victim consented to the violation by encouraging contact or a violation of the order of protection. A violation of an order for protection shall be
a misdemeanor.