Tribal Courts

On July 23, 2024, a TTA Needs Assessment meeting conducted via zoom with Grantee Menominee for TTA Needs Assessment review. Included in the meeting was Project partner, TJI, and from Menominee PD Office, Martina Gauthier, and Mary James. The Team reviewed all of the answers on the call to complete the TTA Needs Assessment and asked clarifying questions to get more information on specific needs, training, resources that would be helpful, current status of project goals, and planning. Team will get together to come up with a work plan and/or have an additional meeting to follow-up.

July-September 2024 Quarterly Activity: During this reporting period, there were approximately xx emails, that were sent out to, received from, and/or sent internally regarding the TTA Needs Assessment, and a follow up meeting to review it with Grantee. We have held a video conference to discuss Menominee TTA Needs Assessment Responses. A second video conference was held internally to discuss work plans, with potential project partner NAICJA. TLPI Webinar announcements were also sent during this time:

During this reporting period, TLPI had multiple attempts to follow up with Southern Ute. TLPI Tribal Court Specialist, Chantel Cloud, asked for assistance from TLPI Healing to Wellness Court specialist, Angie Juarez Monger, for support in outreach since Angie would be on-site in August. After not hearing back from Southern Ute Public Defenders Office for the month of June and July, Angie reached out in August and was able to speak with Mr. Heydinger on 08/15/2024. Mr.

On April 2, 2024 NJC, TJI and CCI conducted a virtual meeting to discuss progress under the grant and next steps.

On March 5, 2024 NJC, TJI and CCI conducted a virtual meeting to discuss progress under the grant and next steps.

On February 6, 2024 NJC, TJI and CCI conducted a virtual meeting to discuss progress under the grant and next steps.

The Violence Against Women Act requires states, tribes and territories to provide full faith and credit for each other’s protection orders on domestic violence and child welfare. Such orders may relate to criminal cases connected to the Tribe or its members. States and tribes have pursued a variety of paths to ensure full faith and credit enforcement. Some states have enacted statutes explicitly recognizing tribal judge protection orders. In other states, the judicial branch or the executive branch have established procedures for enforcement of tribal judge orders.

• Course Description: Since enactment of the Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA) in 1978, states have deferred to tribes when they assert jurisdiction for one of their children, and tribes rely on their tribal judges to protect them. Tribes, however, may not have the resources for their children and draw on state and local child welfare resources under the jurisdiction of state courts. Tribal and state courts therefore have built collaborative relationships for child welfare.

NTJC staff attended and participated in the CTAS orientation held in Seattle, WA. We were not the lead entity for the event, so we did not capture registration nor evaluation data.

The National Tribal Judicial Center (NTJC) at The National Judicial College (NJC) took the lead in locating a venue for the 2024 American Indian Justice Conference. We worked with BJA and other national partners to plan the sessions and logistics. We worked with the team to get the word out about the conference.