Tribal Justice

Native American Heritage Month: Tribal Justice Film Screening

Film:
Tribal Justice (2017), directed by Anne Makepeace, is a feature documentary about the efforts of tribal courts to create alternative justice systems based on their traditions. In California, two Native American women are leading the way. Abby Abinanti, a fierce, lean elder is Chief Judge of the Yurok Tribe on the northwest coast, and Claudette White, Chief Judge of the Quechan Tribe in the southeastern desert, are creating innovative systems that focus on restorative justice in order to keep tribal members out of prison, prevent children from being taken from their communities, and stopping the school-to-prison pipeline.
 
Panel Discussion:
The Tribal Justice screening will be followed by a panel discussion on tribal courts and peacemaking with panelists:  Anne Makepeace, the filmmaker, Maggie McKinley (Fond du Lac Band Ojibwe), Assistant Professor of Law at Penn Law School and an expert in constitutional law and federal Indian law, and Shawn Watts (Cherokee), Lecturer in Law at Columbia Law School, founder of the Peace Making Clinic, and consultant to local tribes in the development of peacemaking courts

Click here to see the Tribal Justice film trailer.

Reception at 6:30 pm, screening at 7 pm, panel discussion to follow.
Admission $10 for the general public, $5 for Scribe and I-house members, free to University of Pennsylvania students and faculty.

In collaboration with Scribe Video Center.