Tulalip, WA - Obama Presidency Oral History

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Theresa Pouley

...to 2015, she was chief judge of the Tulalip Tribe and former judge of the Lumm...
...award for outstanding judge in 2005. Tulalip Tribal Court was awarded the Harvar...
...But the associate judge's job opened at Tulalip . Because I didn't know what I wa...
...about an hour drive from my house, and Tulalip is about a ten-minute drive to m...
...So I became the associate judge at Tulalip . What was the beginning of that jo...

...Then Gary Bass was the chief judge at Tulalip . The person I'd heard about my whol...
...lots of luxuries about developing the Tulalip court system because it was brand new...
...court system because it was brand new. Tulalip had just retroceded their crimina...
...their criminal jurisdiction in 2003, so Tulalip went from having, like, no crimina...
...did anything about crime on the Tulalip Indian reservation. The number o...
...there were a thousand criminals on the Tulalip Indian reservation. They were just al...
...the alternative sentencing program that Tulalip was honored for by Harvard in 2006. I...
...We have this golden opportunity at Tulalip . We don't have two-hundred years...
...The road that used to run through the Tulalip reservation, the main road, was calle...
...nothing magic about doing due process. Tulalip always had a relationship with th...
...federally recognized tribes, and I knew Tulalip had had two of them, so we too...
...supporting the Law and Order Act, and Tulalip 's testimony supporting the Law an...
...about the experience that you had at Tulalip in implementing TLOA? How did it affec...
...are crimes that are committed at Tulalip , sexual abuse crimes in particular...
...in Indian country. We're lucky at Tulalip . I'm sixty miles away from the federa...
...criminal jurisdiction? Yay, right? Tulalip was a pilot. It's not a coincidence. A...
...Parker was on the board of directors at Tulalip , and it was the second time that ...
...prosecutors. All that work was done at Tulalip because they had taken advantage of th...
...Law and Order Act. Extra provisions at Tulalip —say, for example, that you have t...
...also wasn't really problematic at Tulalip because we did the statistica...
...out that for all of the trials that Tulalip had had, we get our jury pool not onl...
...a fair cross section of our community. Tulalip employs a lot of people, well over ...
...a weird twist for other tribes that Tulalip didn't necessarily have a problem with...
...status—there were three tribes, and Tulalip was one of them that said, “Nope, we'r...

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