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Show # 1044 Page 51 between tribal codes as to the juvenile law which is going to be applied. For example, well, some provisions, actually, ah, if the law and order people got ahold of them, they would think they were probably great. For example, in a couple of the codes, there were provisions imposing parental responsibility. One code said that the parent could be sent to jail if his child was out after curfew. Ah, and others imposed a jail sentence or fine for the improper and negligent training of a child. I don't know how you negligently train a child, but whatever it was, apparently a person could be fined or imprisoned for it. These are further illustrations of really how loose this whole area is. There were no other standards than that. Now, the matter of jurisdiction, for example, is one where there is a substantial difference, it seems, from juvenile code to juvenile code. Most of them, age- wise, of course, talk about persons under eighteen years of age. That's the federal standard, and that's the standard that tribes have generally adopted in their codes. But if we say: well, over what persons under eighteen years of age does the court have jurisdiction? We find that some of the codes talk in terms of territorial limitations. That it's only occurences which happen upon tribal or allotted land that the court is going to be concerned with. Others, apparently, ah, say that no matter |
