Native Americans, Crime, and Justice

Marianne O. Nielsen

Foreword -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Context -- The New York Times Yearning to Breathe Free -- Albuquerque (New Mexico) Tribune -- Contextualization for Native American Crime and Criminal Justice Involvement -- Justice and Native Peoples -- Law -- Ann Arbor (Michigan) News Conflicting Cultures -- Self-Determination and American Indian Justice -- Traditional Approaches to Tribal Justice -- Crime -- Tulsa (Oklahoma) World Tribes Find Solution to Child Abuse Law Gap -- Associated Press More Indian Kids Joining Gangs -- Patterns of Native American Crime -- Native American Delinquency -- Trends in Indian Adolescent Drug and Alcohol Use -- Hazho's Sokee'—Stay Together Nicely -- Police -- Law and Order The Oneida Tribal Police -- Taking Control -- Policing the Last Frontier -- Courts -- The (Toronto) Globe and Mail Aboriginal Justice Cited as Way to Combat Crime -- Lewiston (Idaho) Morning Tribune Who's the Law of the Land? -- (Tucson) Arizona Daily Star Navajo Project Links Culture to Legal Realm -- Leaving Our White Eyes Behind -- The Process of Decision Making in Tribal Courts -- Hozhooji NAAT' AANII -- Sentencing -- Associated Press Banished Teens Sent to Prison -- Minneapolis (Minnesota) Star Tribune Peltier's 3rd Try for New Trial Rejected -- Discriminatory Imposition of the Law -- "I Fought the Law and the Law Won" -- Corrections -- The Durango Herald Sweating It Out -- American Indians in Prison -- Discrimination Revisited -- Aboriginal Spirituality in Corrections -- Justice Initiatives -- Edmonton Journal Counselling Judged to Give Natives a Fairer Shake -- Edmonton Journal Brothers Hold Court for Troubled Natives -- Finding the Ways of the Ancestors -- The Nechi Institute on Alcohol and Drug Education -- The Future for Native American Prisoners -- Afterword -- Hartford (Connecticut) Courant A Justice System Develops, Based on Tribal Law -- Major Issues in Native American Involvement in the Criminal Justice System