Research Reports
Reflections on Traditional American Indian Ways, 1998
Threats to Tribal Sovereignty, 1998
Traditional American Indian Leadership: A Comparison with U.S. Governance, 1997
Programming for offenders
American Indian communities have very little, if any, participation in developing programs in the criminal justice system or in shaping programs to serve as alternatives to incarceration. While the criminal justice system is forced to deal with crime and delinquency in the Indian community, it is a tragic irony that no operational relationships with the community exist. Each sector of the system seems to be self-contained, relying on its own resources, skills, experience, and knowledge to meet its own needs. Almost in clinical fashion the needs of the institutions take precedence over cultural, psychological, emotional, and social needs of an Indian clientele. The reality of the home and community life of these criminal justice clients is not reflected in the system’s policies and procedures. Moreover, these clients and their families have very little, if any, involvement in civic affairs and do not participate in the political process. As a result, they have little knowledge or interest in the kind of programming developed by the criminal justice system. Lacking such foreknowledge, the community fails to see how criminal justice operations have implications to their lives.
The
Well-Being of American Indian Children in Minnesota: Economic Conditions,
1994
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