Please respond to the following questions related to chapters 7 and 8 in Crime &
Please respond to the following questions related to chapters 7 and 8 in Crime & Social Justice in Indian Country.
Chapter 7
1. What is the disadvantage of state recognition of tribes? How does state recognition differ from federal recognition?
2. How did the Marshall trilogy influence the view of the state-tribe relationship?
3. How did the gaming/casino industry open a path for states and tribes to interact differently?
4. What was the motivation for ICWA and why is the proper identification of Indigenous children important?
5. What was the novel argument about the relationship between tribes, states, and the federal government that proposes collaboration between North Carolina and tribes with state recognition did not contradict ICWA?
Chapter 8
You may wish to consult background resources about Aotearoa/New Zealand for a fuller appreciation of this chapter and to help with the questions.
1. What was the colonial British (and after independence American settler) view of indigenous groups (polities) and how did treaty making expose this view as a lie or fiction?
2. What influence did the Canons of Construction have on the legal status of Maori in Aotearoa/New Zealand?
3. How do the Community Justice Boards differ from the adversarial system?
4. How does the Family Group Conference resemble an adversarial system?
5. In the chapter’s discussion about the juvenile justice system in New Zealand, the authors mention concerns Maori have raised. After watching the short documentary (produced by the NZ Ministry of Justice) Links to an external site. what concerns does the Rangatahi courts appear to address?
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