Civil Justice

The emerging issues conference will provide tribal justice system officials with recent legal updates impacting tribal courts and tribal justice systems and strategies to improve tribal court operations within tribal justice systems. Some of the topics that will be addressed at this conference will include:
• Impact of Haaland v Brackeen on tribal courts and tribal justice systems.
• Criminal jurisdiction updates to include and examination of Oklahoma v. Castro-Huerta and United States v. Cooley.
• Separation of powers for tribal justice systems.

TJI provided faculty to support the intertribal Working Group meeting in June 13-14, 2023 in Scottsdale AZ. TJI personnel presented on the development of tribal codes to address stalking; TJI provided faculty to moderate main sessions on both days of the meeting; and TJI provided faculty on topic of Strengthening offender accountability and intervention

NAICJA Staff attended the Annual NAILS Meeting in Tempe, AZ on January 31, 2023. Overview of Training and Technical Assistance for TCCLA Sub‐grantees – Johanna Farmer and Mary Rodriguez, National American Indian Court Judges Association (NAICJA)

Proposed Activity: NAICJA proposes to conduct two (2), two-day Roundtable Conferences – one in Anchorage, Alaska, and one in Albuquerque, New Mexico, with proposed sessions outlined below.

Monthly meetings with the individual pilot project sites, Oklahoma Indian Legal Services (OILS) that include Quapaw Nation Tribal Court in order to plan and implement a holistic defense pilot project.

Monthly meetings with the individual pilot project site, Nevada Legal Services (NLS) to plan and implement a holistic defense pilot project.

In collaboration with the Resource basked held (4) Planning Meetings to locate venue, recruit presenters/trainers and secure dates meetings were held: June 9, 2022, June 16, 2022, June 23, 2022, June 30, 2022 on Teams Topic will be to have three (3) presenters from a youth Tribal Court Track and three (3) presenters from the adult Tribal Court Track. To include group sessions and opportunities for breakout sessions as well on the different ways circles are utilized in Alaska Communities and could be utilized or enhanced in tribal courts.

Proposed Activity: NAICJA proposes to conduct a two-day Holistic Defense Roundtable Conference with two (2) proposed sessions outlined below.
Requirement: National Roundtable with (up to 40 attendees) to define and discuss holistic defense elements for tribal settings and identify coordination points that connect national holistic defense efforts. The Roundtable Conference will be held in the Western U.S. to accommodate attendees. (BJA 2018 TCCLA Solicitation, Page 12.)

Monthly meetings with the individual pilot project site, Alaska Legal Services Corporation (ALSC) to plan and implement a holistic defense pilot project.

To disseminate information to tribal justice communities ATJRC is collaborating with WCPI to assist in the development and implementation of a Domestic Violence Simulator Program. ATJRC facilitated and held (2) meetings January 5, 2022 was a walk through session with Mr. Bill Humm and Mr. Brian Kauffman, Kimberly Martus and Caroline Lee to prepare for presentation to Alaska Partners and Domestic Full Faith and Credit Workgroup. January 19, 2022 meeting was held at 11:30 am to 1:00 pm with our nine (9) ATJRC Partners and twenty (20) Domestic Full Faith and Credit Workgroup invited.