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UA Alums Involved in Effort to Legally Prosecute Non-Indians on Pascua Yaqui Tribe

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Author: 
Amanda Ballard
Year: 
2014

UA Alums Involved in Effort to Legally Prosecute Non-Indians on Pascua Yaqui Tribe

UA Alums Involved in Effort to Legally Prosecute Non-Indians on Pascua Yaqui Tribe
UA Alums Involved in Effort to Legally Prosecute Non-Indians on Pascua Yaqui Tribe

University of Arizona alumnus Alfred Urbina, chief prosecutor for Southern Arizona's Pascua Yaqui tribe, has sat in front of families whose loved ones have been victims of violent crimes, only to say there is nothing that can be done.

"I have had to face whole families and explain that we could not provide the full measure of justice that their loved ones deserved," he says. "I have watched mothers and grandmothers cry and I could do little to help them."

Now there is something that can be done...

capacity building, criminal jurisdiction, criminal prosecution, domestic violence, Indigenous Peoples Law and Policy Program (IPLP), law enforcement, practical sovereignty, tribal courts, Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) 1994
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Pascua Yaqui Tribe
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Governance, Health and Social Services, Justice Systems, Land/Jurisdiction, Laws and Codes

Ballard, Amanda. "UA Alums Involved in Effort to Legally Prosecute Non-Indians on Pascua Yaqui Tribe." UA News. April 21, 2014. Article. (https://uanews.arizona.edu/story/ua-alums-involved..., accessed April 22, 2014)

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