It has a community center and an Indian-owned store. The reservation staffs an ambulance service, a fire department, and sanitation service. It is the first reservation in Minnesota to build an archives-library program to preserve tribal records and historical material. Employment on the reservation is very limited, resulting in high unemployment rates. Expanding the economic base has high priority.
Governmental services provide employment.
Timber management, operating a tree nursery for replanting, and logging provide some employment. The Tribe operates a sawmill, producing lumber. Red Lake Fisheries Association, Inc., a cooperative begun in 1929, has about 300 fishermen-members, with up to 500 catching fish during the season. They process the fish and fillet them for sale either fresh or flash-frozen. A farm was purchased on the southwest corner of the reservation in 1994 and the Tribe has continued with its paddy rice operation.