NEW TOOLBOX RELEASE: McGirt and Rebuilding Tribal Nations
This Toolkit offers tribal justice planners a step-by-step guide a way to blend the adversarial process with more traditional practices that focus on healing and restoration.
Learn methods involving the role of Indian tribal courts and Courts of Indian Offenses to resolve disputes between persons, Indian and non-Indian, on reservations across the United States.
Understand one of the most exemplary and successful models of blending Indian and Western law as an alternative dispute resolution between Indian and non-Indian perspectives.
Delve into the successful integration of Peacemaker courts and western court systems from that aligned with community members’ beliefs about who should hold authority and how it should be exercised.
An audible episode about an innovative justice model integrating Indian and Western law in New York.
Read and use this speech delivered by Chief Justice Yazzie to learn how the Navajo used peacemaking in sentencing and handling of cases.
Gain insight about the differences and similarities between American and Indigenous Justice Paradigms. Assess how they impact court systems in a historical and contemporary sense.