Bismarck, N.D. ? Members of a group that protests at military funerals around the country will be barred from an American Indian soldier’s funeral on the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation, tribal officials say.

Marcus Wells Jr., the chairman of the Three Affiliated Tribes, said tribal officials were notified that members of the Westboro Baptist Church of Topeka, planned to demonstrate at National Guard Cpl. Nathan Goodiron’s funeral on Saturday in Mandaree.

Members of the Westboro Baptist Church say the deaths of soldiers are punishment from God for the country’s tolerance of homosexuals. The group’s Web site said it planned to demonstrate at Goodiron’s funeral.

Shirley Phelps-Roper, daughter of the Rev. Fred Phelps Sr., pastor of Westboro Baptist, said her group planned to protest outside the reservation, “on public rights of way.”

“We don’t get into anyone’s private area,” said Phelps-Roper, the church’s attorney and its spokeswoman. “We don’t go on private land.”

Tribal officials passed a resolution Friday that prohibits the group from protesting on the reservation, Wells said.

Goodiron, 25, of Mandaree, known on the reservation as Young Eagle, was killed Thanksgiving Day in Afghanistan when a grenade struck his vehicle while he was on patrol. He was a member of the North Dakota National Guard’s 1st Battalion, 188th Air Defense Artillery.

Funeral services were scheduled Saturday morning in the Mandaree high school.