a claim in Tribal Court. Plaintiffs allege that tribal officials have denied membership to some of them while granting membership to others with lesser degrees of Indian blood. In holding that an implied private right of action may not be read into the Indian Civil Rights Act, the Supreme Court stated that a “tribe’s right to define its own membership for tribal purposes has long been recognized as central to its existence as an independent political community.” Santa Clara Pueblo, 436 U.S. at 72 n. 32, 98 S.Ct. at 1684 n. 32. “Given the often vast gulf between tribal traditions and those with which federal courts are more intimately familiar, the judiciary should not rush to create causes of action that would intrude on these delicate matters.” Id. See also Smith, 875 F.Supp. at 1364 (<HOLDING>). Giving deference to the Tribe’s right as a
holding that federal court lacks jurisdiction to decide tribal membership disputes holding that disputes involving questions of interpretation of a tribal constitution and tribal law is not within the jurisdiction of the district court holding that federal courts do not have jurisdiction to interpret a tribal constitution or tribal laws holding that resolution of tribal law disputes are not within federal court jurisdiction holding that federal courts lacked jurisdiction to determine whether a tribes membership requirements violated icra and noting that a tribes right to define its own membership for tribal purposes has long been recognized as central to its existence as an independent political community