

"We are getting little funding from the Bureau of Indian Affairs or the government," he says. "It was promised by President Obama that he was going to help the Indian nations. But really, I don't know what nations he is helping, because we have gotten very little funding from the federal government, very little increases. It's just a matter of the money not getting to the tribes."





Another wrinkle in the tribal justice system concerns crimes perpetrated by non-Native tribal residents. Historically, tribal courts have been generally unable to prosecute non-Natives, even though they account for more than three-quarters of the people living on tribal lands.