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<p class="MsoNormal" align="right" style="text-align:right;background:white"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#7D8185">Yurok Tribe<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:3.75pt;background:white"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#7D8185">Judge Abby Abinanti<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:.25in;background:white"><span style="font-size:14.5pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#333333">On a gloomy day in September, Lisa Hayden rushed through the circular door of the Yurok Tribal Court in Klamath, California,
with her 1-year-old son on her hip. Hayden, 31, worried that the day wouldn’t turn out any different from all the others she’d spent in court trying to protect herself from her ex-husband. For 12 years, starting when she was pregnant with their first child,
Hayden alleges, her ex-husband had held guns to her head, punched her and called her terrible names.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:.25in;background:white"><span style="font-size:14.5pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#333333">The abuse that Hayden says she suffered is shockingly common: According to a Justice Department study in 2016, four out
of five Native Americans have experienced violence from an intimate partner. In 97 percent of those cases, Native women were victimized by non-Natives. To make matters worse, indigenous people are less likely to receive fair treatment when interacting with
police and judges, according to a recent analysis of data from the Centers for Disease Control and a report from the National Council on Crime and Delinquency.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:.25in;background:white"><span style="font-size:14.5pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#333333">This has been Hayden’s experience. Last year, anticipating her ex-husband’s release from prison, Hayden went to county
court to request a restraining order, showing the judge threatening letters her ex had sent from prison. After spending less than five minutes listening to Hayden, the judge dismissed her fears as something “she had to work through” and denied her request.
Within six months of his release, according to Hayden, her ex-husband—high on heroin, wearing a bulletproof vest and armed with three guns—kicked in the front door of her apartment, yelling that he wanted to kill her, as she and her three children huddled
on the floor. Though her ex was sent back to prison, Hayden remained afraid.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:.25in;background:white"><span style="font-size:14.5pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#333333">This was why Hayden brought her request for a restraining order to Judge Abby Abinanti of the Yurok Tribal Court, a respected
figure with a distinctive approach to jurisprudence. Abinanti doesn’t wear a robe, opting instead for jeans and cowboy boots. She sits not on a dais, but behind a wooden desk in a small room. Immediately upon entering Abinanti’s courtroom on that September
day, Hayden said, she felt “more like a person” than she had in county court. Abinanti listened at length, squinting as if trying to solve a puzzle.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:.25in;background:white"><span style="font-size:14.5pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#333333">Ultimately, Abinanti issued the restraining order. But she also made an offer to Hayden’s ex-husband, to send letters
to his children and receive photos through a caseworker; an earlier offer still stands for him to attend a program designed by Abinanti’s court to rehabilitate batterers, and to remove his gang tattoos on the tribe’s dime. The goal was to protect Hayden while
giving her ex-husband a chance to end his cycle into and out of prison. (So far, he’s refused all services.)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:.25in;background:white"><span style="font-size:14.5pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#333333">“No one ever came up with that in the county system,” Hayden said after Abinanti’s ruling, smiling as her kids played
nearby. “No one ever tried to get at the root of it. ‘Relieved’ is the big word for today.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:.25in;background:white"><span style="font-size:14.5pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#333333">Abinanti is one of a growing number of tribal judges nationwide incorporating traditional culture into their courtrooms,
with the dual aim of rehabilitating individuals and providing justice to people often failed by the regular criminal-justice system. Abinanti, whose court was recently described in a federal assessment as “extremely fair and balanced in its rulings,” is more
likely to ask defendants to devise their own ways to atone for a crime or settle a dispute than to slap them with fines or incarceration.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:.25in;background:white"><span style="font-size:14.5pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#333333">As Abinanti explains, “I’m looking at: How did we resolve things before our cultural interruption, when invasion occurred?
We were village people, and we sat around and had discussions. My purpose is to help you think up how to make it right if you made a mistake…. For me, jail is banishment. It’s the last resort.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:.25in;background:white"><span style="font-size:14.5pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#333333">Traditional models of dispute resolution, which are characterized by the involvement of everyone affected by an offense
and emphasize repairing harm instead of inflicting punishment—an approach often called “restorative justice”—are gaining attention outside Native communities.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:.25in;background:white"><span style="font-size:14.5pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#333333">It’s a significant shift, as historically both Congress and the Supreme Court have diminished the legitimacy of tribal
courts and peacemaking forums. (In almost all circumstances, tribal courts cannot hear criminal cases involving non-Native people, even for crimes committed on Native land.)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:.25in;background:white"><span style="font-size:14.5pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#333333">Now five Western states as well as Michigan are using tribal models to develop courts that seek to create a consensus
between the plaintiff and the defendant. Casey Family Programs, one of the nation’s largest child-welfare foundations, is promoting partnerships between state and tribal courts in which judges, social workers and attorneys convene to adjudicate cases. In the
past several years, courses in Native American peacemaking have been taught at the Columbia, Lewis and Clark, and University of New Mexico law schools. Prestigious law-review journals, including the American Bar Association’s, have published articles on the
importance of therapeutic tribal courts and peacemaking. As a sign of this increasing respect, Senators Al Franken (D-MN) and Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) recently introduced legislation that would grant tribal judges expanded ability to prosecute non-Native assailants.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:.25in;background:white"><span style="font-size:14.5pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#333333">The new attention is partly due to the growing recognition that the country’s punitive approach to criminal justice has
failed: The United States has 5 percent of the world’s population but 25 percent of its population of prisoners, a disproportionate number of them people of color.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:.25in;background:white"><span style="font-size:14.5pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#333333">“The American justice system is in crisis, and we have to think about what else could work,” said Cheryl Fairbanks, a
board member at the National American Indian Court Judges Association.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:.25in;background:white"><span style="font-size:14.5pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#333333">Could the old practices revived by Abinanti be part of this future?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:.25in;background:white"><b><span style="font-size:14.5pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#333333">‘You don’t start out to be a meth-head’</span></b><span style="font-size:14.5pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#333333"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:.25in;background:white"><span style="font-size:14.5pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#333333">Every other week, Abinanti packs her hatchback with groceries, books and blankets and drives six and a half hours from
her apartment in San Francisco, through the tawny hills of Northern California, and up into the foggy redwood forests of the Yurok Reservation.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:.25in;background:white"><span style="font-size:14.5pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#333333">Abinanti, 70, has been making this drive her entire life.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:.25in;background:white"><span style="font-size:14.5pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#333333">As a child, Abinanti was shuttled from her drug-addicted mother’s house near the reservation to the home of her paternal
grandmother, who lived in San Francisco’s Noe Valley neighborhood, blocks away from Abinanti’s current apartment. Like many Native children, Abinanti was misdiagnosed by her school and placed in a class for developmentally delayed students; not until high
school did a teacher realize she was bright. Abinanti was angry a lot. (“I’m better now, even though I’m still half-mean,” she offered with a dry smile.) Relatives often said she reminded them of her grandfather, Marion Rube, a bank robber who once escaped
from San Quentin prison. Her childhood isn’t something that she typically shares from the bench, but it informs her empathic orientation.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:.25in;background:white"><span style="font-size:14.5pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#333333">“You don’t start out to be a meth-head—it’s not, like, a career objective,” Abinanti said on a recent drive north. When
not talking, she hummed along with Hank Williams on the radio.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:.25in;background:white"><span style="font-size:14.5pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#333333">“You don’t know what breaks a person, and if you’re strong enough to come back, you can’t judge someone who isn’t.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:.25in;background:white"><span style="font-size:14.5pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#333333">Abinanti speaks often about intergenerational trauma, the idea that the events of colonization in the past—rape, murder,
and the dissolution of indigenous languages and cultures—create ongoing problems in the present: Native American communities now experience physical and sexual assault at three times the national average.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:.25in;background:white"><span style="font-size:14.5pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#333333">For the Yurok, that traumatic history is recent. Throughout Abinanti’s childhood and until 1970, the federal government,
eager to assimilate indigenous people, terminated more than 100 nations, including the Yurok. The government stripped those citizens of their land and made it illegal to dance ceremonially or practice Native religions. By 1974, when Abinanti became the first
Native American woman to pass the bar in California, there was no tribe for her to work for, so she joined California Indian Legal Services, a nonprofit law firm for the state’s tribes and tribal members. In some courtrooms, she was the first Native American
lawyer ever to enter there.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:.25in;background:white"><span style="font-size:14.5pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#333333">Abinanti was the first Native woman in California to become a state judge; she also taught law at the University of California,
Berkeley, and served as a judge or attorney for seven other tribes. In 2007, after the Yurok Tribe reclaimed its legal status and reestablished its government, Abinanti became chief justice. At the time, the court was open only once a month, mostly to adjudicate
fishing violations. Under Abinanti, it’s grown into an enterprise with about 20 employees and hears an average of 670 cases per year, ranging from illegal trash dumping to domestic-abuse cases.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:.25in;background:white"><span style="font-size:14.5pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#333333">Innovation and flexibility are what distinguish Abinanti’s court. For instance, if both parents agree to the terms, she
permits nonmonetary child-support payments such as manual labor or salmon. Abinanti and her staff have created a handful of programs intended to provide alternatives to incarceration. A wellness program sanctioned by the state allows the Yurok Tribe to pull
members accused of drug crimes out of the court system and bring them home for addiction treatment; the program includes cultural rituals like sweat lodges and prayer.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">“If we were serious about mirroring Judge Abby’s style, we’d have to create and sustain a society with minimal incarceration.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:.25in;background:white"><span style="font-size:14.5pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#333333">Another program is designed to rehabilitate people who have beaten their partners or children. It’s the first in the state
of California, and possibly in the country, certified to include non-Native people. That’s imperative on the Yurok’s checkerboard reservation, where tribal members and non-Natives are often neighbors and partners. Participants in the yearlong program consult
with elders and learn to identify personal triggers and to use anger-management tools. Since the program began two years ago, none of its participants have returned to jail for domestic violence.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:.25in;background:white"><span style="font-size:14.5pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#333333">The tribe has yet to analyze its recidivism rates overall, but a handful of studies indicate that other tribal courts
are achieving better success for their members than are state courts. The Kake Tribe in Alaska found that members enrolled in a peacemaking project fulfilled their court-ordered amends 97.5 percent of the time, compared with a 22 percent success rate in the
Alaskan state-court system. Participants in the Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe Wellness Court, which allows people arrested for driving while intoxicated to receive culturally specific treatment on the reservation, had 60 percent fewer rearrests one year after
entering the program than the DUI offenders, both Native and non-Native, who attended a county rehab program.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:.25in;background:white"><span style="font-size:14.5pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#333333">Timothy Connors, who’s been a state judge in Michigan for more than 25 years and has served by invitation in the past
five on the court of the Little Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa Indians, is leading an effort to create county courts that use a tribally inspired peacemaking approach in cases where the parties involved will have an ongoing relationship after they leave court.
In the first four years of these peacemaking courts, 94 percent of the cases resulted in an agreement between both parties and avoided litigation. Unlike mediation, the goal of these courts isn’t simply the resolution of a given issue, but rather a deepened
understanding between the affected parties.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:.25in;background:white"><span style="font-size:14.5pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#333333">“It’s the idea of cleansing and healing versus judging,” Connors said. “They are designed not to get even, but to get
well.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:.25in;background:white"><span style="font-size:14.5pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#333333">Under current law, states aren’t required to recognize most tribal-court rulings. Yet there are now at least 15 Tribal-State
Court Forums—coalitions of federal, state and tribal judges, which meet regularly to facilitate efficient cross-jurisdictional enforcement of court orders, civil proceedings and compliance in child-welfare cases.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:.25in;background:white"><span style="font-size:14.5pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#333333">“Tribal courts have been continuously attacked as illegitimate forums since contact,” said Jerry Gardner, executive director
of the Tribal Law and Policy Institute. “But with the rise of restorative justice, tribal courts are being seen not just as legitimate institutions but as partners, which have wise and innovative approaches and resources to probe the root causes of crimes.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:.25in;background:white"><b><span style="font-size:14.5pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#333333">The challenge now</span></b><span style="font-size:14.5pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#333333"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:.25in;background:white"><span style="font-size:14.5pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#333333">One recent evening, Abinanti sat on her couch watching baseball with a few colleagues and discussing the people who’d
ended up in jail over the weekend. For the judge—who spends much of her spare time studying economic development, searching for a way to help her tribe overcome its 73 percent unemployment rate—knowing these families is an asset, as it deepens her understanding
of the impact of a particular crime.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:.25in;background:white"><span style="font-size:14.5pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#333333">In non-tribal courts, by contrast, judges must recuse themselves if they know a defendant. That’s just one of a number
of barriers to applying tribal models to America’s criminal-justice system more broadly. The scale of the state-court system alone makes it nearly impossible for judges to take the time required for Abinanti’s approach: There were nearly 7 million cases filed
in California state court in 2015. Mandatory-sentencing laws would also have to be overhauled.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:.25in;background:white"><span style="font-size:14.5pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#333333">“If we were serious about mirroring Judge Abby’s style, we’d have to create and sustain a society with minimal incarceration,” Savala
Trepczynski, executive director of the Thelton E. Henderson Center for Social Justice at the UC Berkeley School of Law, noted by e-mail. “We’d have to reimagine the purpose of the criminal-justice system and destroy the economic incentives to incarcerate.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:.25in;background:white"><span style="font-size:14.5pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#333333">Developing such courts can be a challenge even for tribes. There’s no reliable data on how many of the 567 federally recognized
tribes have set up courts that reflect their traditions. But at least 19 have written tribal codes, and many more are revitalizing their courts with cultural concepts. However, many face significant budget challenges. (Abinanti likens herself to a street hustler
for all the time she spends applying for grants.) The Bureau of Indian Affairs is funding most tribal courts at just 6 percent of what is needed, according to a 2015 BIA report to Congress. Certain states, including California and Alaska, receive no allocated
federal funds for tribal courts. A pilot project to determine funding needs in those states was created during the Obama administration, but it would be eliminated under President Trump’s proposed budget.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:.25in;background:white"><span style="font-size:14.5pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#333333">There is also the question of whether a restorative-justice model is appropriate for every crime, particularly those involving
sexual predators. There is a real potential for further harm if the victims of sexual violence are expected to communicate with the perpetrators, said Sarah Deer, co-director of the Indian Law program at the Mitchell Hamline School of Law and a national expert
on violence against Native women. “I get nervous about putting victims in that system,” Deer continued, “because it sets up a lot of victim-blaming.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:.25in;background:white"><span style="font-size:14.5pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#333333">Still, Abinanti believes that for perpetrators truly committed to making amends, rehabilitation is possible, even though
it may take years.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:.25in;background:white"><span style="font-size:14.5pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#333333">“This isn’t as simple as saying you’re sorry and moving on,” she said. “Some things aren’t fixable, but… you at least
have to try.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:.25in;background:white"><span style="font-size:14.5pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#333333"><a href="http://invw.org/2017/11/30/native-american-judge-shows-peacemaking-courts-offer-a-model-for-reform/">You can
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<a href="http://www.wellnesscourts.org/files/Treatment%20Guide%202nd%20ed_%202017.pdf" target="_blank">
Tribal Healing to Wellness Courts: Treatment Guidelines, 2nd ed.</a> (2017), is designed to provide tribal communities with an overview of Western substance abuse treatment strategies that have been developed by drug court programs over the past several years
and that tribal programs might consider adapting, along with traditional healing practices. This guideline draws upon drug court standards and best practices, and the experiences of hundreds of tribal and state adult and juvenile drug court programs, operating
in various environments and serving a wide range of individuals addicted to alcohol and/or other drugs. <a href="http://www.wellnesscourts.org/files/Draft_Treatment_Guidelines2002.pdf" target="_blank">Tribal Healing to Wellness Courts: Treatment Guidelines
for Adults and Juveniles</a> (2002 draft)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">You can find this publication for free download on our <a href="http://www.wellnesscourts.org/HWC_Publication_Series.cfm">Tribal Healing to Wellness Court Publication Series</a> webpage,
as well as on our <a href="http://www.home.tlpi.org/tribal-healing-to-wellness-courts" target="_blank">Home.TLPI.org</a> website. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">The Tribal Healing to Wellness Court Publication Series is a free resource available to the field, documenting best practices and the latest in practice-based knowledge.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><a href="https://naicja.wixsite.com/aijc">American Indian Justice Conference</a><br>
</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">December 7-8, 2017<br>
Palm Springs, CA<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Upcoming Grants:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><a href="https://www.samhsa.gov/grants/grant-announcements/ti-18-002">SAMHSA Grant: Expand Substance Abuse Treatment Capacity in Family Treatment Drug Courts</a><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Posted on Grants.gov: Friday, November 17, 2017<br>
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