{"id":7347,"date":"2017-11-08T18:46:56","date_gmt":"2017-11-08T18:46:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reunitethestates.org\/?page_id=7347"},"modified":"2017-11-09T07:43:32","modified_gmt":"2017-11-09T07:43:32","slug":"tribal-court-a-quasi-independent-court-composed-of-tribal-members-usually-situated-on-a-reservation-varying-in-procedure-according-to-local-custom","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/reunitethestates.org\/?page_id=7347","title":{"rendered":"Tribal Court &#8211; a quasi-independent court composed of tribal members, usually situated on a reservation and varying in procedure according to local custom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 18pt;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff00ff;\">Tribal Court<\/span>:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>&#8220;Under the Indian Child Welfare Act, a court with child custody jurisdiction\u00a0 that is<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left; padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>(1) a Court of Indian Offenses,<br \/>\n(2) a court established and operated under an Indian tribe\u2019s code or custom, or<br \/>\n(3) any other tribal administrative body that is vested with authority over child-custody proceedings.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>The Tribal Court is composed of tribal members, is usually situated on the reservation, and varies in its characteristics from tribe to tribe. It is not part of any state\u2019s judicial system, instead operating<span class=\"text_exposed_show\">\u00a0more or less as a judicial system of a foreign\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><strong>nation.\u00a0 See INDIAN CHILD WELFARE ACT.&#8221;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\" align=\"JUSTIFY\"><span style=\"font-size: 18pt; color: #993300;\"><strong>References:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"sdfootnote1\">\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>[1]: All definitions, unless otherwise specified, from Black&#8217;s Law Dictionary Deluxe Tenth Edition by Henry Campbell Black, Editor in Chief Bryan A. Garner. ISBN: 978-0-314-61300-4<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tribal Court: &#8220;Under the Indian Child Welfare Act, a court with child custody jurisdiction\u00a0 that is (1) a Court of Indian Offenses, (2) a court established and operated under an Indian tribe\u2019s code or custom, or (3) any other tribal administrative body that is vested with authority over child-custody proceedings. The Tribal Court is composed &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/reunitethestates.org\/?page_id=7347\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Tribal Court &#8211; a quasi-independent court composed of tribal members, usually situated on a reservation and varying in procedure according to local custom<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":7328,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-7347","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reunitethestates.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reunitethestates.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reunitethestates.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reunitethestates.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reunitethestates.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7347"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/reunitethestates.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7347\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7523,"href":"https:\/\/reunitethestates.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7347\/revisions\/7523"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reunitethestates.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reunitethestates.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}