J.A. at 34a.


21
At approximately 2:00 p.m., the BIA officers and the local officers reentered the reservation and established a headquarters at the BIA building.  Two hours later, the FBI's Minneapolis Field Office received reports that approximately twenty or thirty Indians were shooting guns into the air and possibly making Molotov cocktails, all in the vicinity of the LEC.  Some were armed with weapons taken from the LEC.  The BIA and local officers decided to leave the reservation and wait for reinforcements from the Northwest Minnesota Law Enforcement Task Force.


22
They returned between 7:00 and 7:30 p.m., after the reinforcements had arrived.  Their strategy was to secure the BIA building and to protect the hospital and the other buildings east of the creek from the violence. They did not attempt to protect the west side of the creek.  That part of the reservation had fallen under the control of the Hanson group, which had dispersed throughout the area after the officers at the roadblocks had been withdrawn.  During the evening, a number of vehicles and buildings west of the creek were burned, including the tribal office building, a tribal warehouse, and the homes of appellants Roger Jourdain and Francis Brun.


23
Negotiations between Harry Hanson and federal authorities began the next morning.  On May 22, Hanson voluntarily surrendered to federal authorities.  Five other individuals whom he identified as having participated in the uprising surrendered as well.


24
The plaintiffs filed their complaint in December of 1981, seeking damages resulting from "the defendant's employees