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Tribal Policing: Asserting Sovereignty, Seeking Justice.(Brief article)(Book review)
TRIBAL POLICING: ASSERTING SOVEREIGNTY, SEEKING JUSTICE
By Eileen Luna-Firebaugh
University of Arizona Press, 149 pages
BETWEEN 1995 AND 2000, the number of tribal police departments in Indian Country increased by 67 percent. In the wake of this, Eileen Luna-Fire-baugh, an associate professor of American Indian law and policy at the University of Arizona, has written an accessible portrait of tribal policing in Indian Country.
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Today, about 170 American Indian tribes have police departments. Luna-Firebaugh both surveyed and individually interviewed officers and found that there are five different types of law enforcement agencies in Indian Country ranging from those that are funded by federal legislation to those suppported directly by the tribes. She makes a case for why the history of tribal policing is ...
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