Tribal Justice Roundtable at LSA
L. Jane McMillan
Dear Colleagues,
Please see the notice below from Ruth Cowan for an exciting panel at the LSA meeting.
Please use this list to promote your Law and Indigeneity and CRN activities.
All the best
Jane
Canada Research Chair Indigenous Peoples and Sustainable Communities
St. Francis Xavier University
Associate Professor Department of Anthropology
ljmc...@stfx.ca
Tribal Justice in California
Fri, 5/30: 10:15 AM - 12:00 PM
0633
Roundtable Session
Friday Session 2
Hilton Minneapolis
Room: Salon B
A video
featuring Chief Justices serving courts in the two largest tribes in
California, Yurok and Quechan, will precede the discussion. We'll see the
judges in their courtrooms and engaging in their communities. We'll see them
working with state court counterparts to address problems such as law
enforcement response time on tribal lands, dual jurisdiction issues, and access
to court services; and at the Tribal Court/State Court Forum working to model
cooperation, identifying problems of mutual concern and seeking to coordinate
approaches for enforcing court orders.
The discussion:
The federally imposed jurisdictional constraints; the different kind of judge-
one engaged in her tribal community; the different kind of court- one pressing
against jurisdictional and financial constraints toward restoring sovereignty
and overcoming the ravages of history; and the different kind of justice- not
by strangers and not directed at punishment, but rather a restorative approach.
Chair/Discussant
Ruth Cowan, Ralph Bunche Institute - Contact Me
Participant(s)
Hilary A. Soderland, University of Washington School of Law
- Contact Me
Jennifer Walter, California Administrative Office of the Courts - Contact Me
Hon. Anita Fineday, White Earth Band of Ojibwe - Contact Me
Hon. William Thorne, ret. Utah Court of Appeals and Tribal Court
Judge - Contact Me
Hon. Claudette White, Quechan Tribe - Contact Me
Keywords
CITIZENSHIP AND NATION
INDIGENEITY AND FIRST PEOPLES
Roundtable Categories
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