tribal justice
Indigenous dispute resolution
Tribal justice refers to legal systems and practices administered by indigenous tribes or nations, operating under their own laws and courts rather than state or federal jurisdiction.
In the United States, tribal courts handle civil and criminal matters on reservation lands.
The term also describes informal community-based justice emphasizing restoration and traditional values over punishment: The elders convened to deliver tribal justice according to ancestral customs.
- indigenous cosmologyTraditional beliefs about universe origins
- reparationCompensation for injury done
- tribal councilIndigenous community's ruling body
- mediationIntervention to resolve conflict
- ancestral wisdomInsight from prior generations
sacred fire · ceremonial practices · healing ceremony · clan system · restitution · blood money · oral histories · consensus-building · elder council · natural law · blood feud · talking circle · peace pipe · elders · sovereignty · cultural preservation · chief · spiritual traditions
- Indigenous Justicetribal courts, village councils, elder councils, tribal police, peacemaking
- Tribal Courtstribal court, tribal law, chief judge, appellate court, family court
- tribal jurisdictiontribal courts, tribal law, tribal police, federal jurisdiction, state jurisdiction
- tribal justicetribal courts, indigenous law, tribal law, elder councils, village councils
- tribal lawtribal courts, tribal law, tribal court, tribal sovereignty, tribal governance
- revengeretaliation, payback, vengeance, vendetta, blood feud
tribal justicestate courts
Non-federal legal tribunals
federal courts · colonial courts · municipal courts · federal jurisdiction · county courts
tribal justiceretributive justice
Punishment proportional to offense
common law · colonial law · civil law · statutory law · Roman law