Title: Tribal Court Clearinghouse

Source/Sponsoring Agency: Tribal Law and Policy Institute

URL: http://www.tribal-institute.org/

Date Checked: 11/4/2002      Status: Active

Date Annotated: 11/4/2002

Topics: Family Law; Indian Law; Legal Profession

Other keywords: Jurisdiction; Native Americans

Contents: The Tribal Law and Policy Institute is a non-profit, Native American-run organization seeking to strengthen the operations of the Tribal Court system and its interaction with the U.S. federal judiciary. The website of the Tribal Court Clearinghouse contains a searchable database (provided by VersusLaw) of some 1300 Tribal Court opinions, memoranda, and orders. A message board, which can be viewed by any visitor to the website, allows people working in Tribal Courts or with cases involving Native Americans to share information and request assistance from others in the field. Also on the site are law review articles on Indian law and jurisdiction, links to relevant federal laws, bills and recent legislation, decisions of the U.S. Supreme Court and Navaho Nation court, and several codes: a model tribal housing code, the Tribal Juvenile Justice Code, and the Tribal Child and Family Protection Code. Much of the content deals with issues of legal jurisdiction; other important areas are child custody, gaming, and tribal identity.

Author of Annotation: A. Carson