Tribe: Quileute Tribe of the Quiluete Reservation
§17.1 QUILEUTE ELDERS PANEL ESTABLISHED
The Quileute Tribe recognizes that its children and youth are the
Tribe’s greatest treasure and resource. To support Quileute children
and youth who have come into contact with the Quileute justice
system, the Quileute Tribe finds it in the Tribe’s best interest to
establish the Quileute Elders Panel as an adjunct body to the Quileute
Tribal Court pursuant to the inherent sovereign authority reserved
under the Quileute Tribal Constitution and Quileute traditional law and
custom. […] §17.2 PURPOSE
The purpose of the Quileute Elders Panel (“Elders Panel”) is to:
A.
provide a diversionary program for juveniles charged with
offenses under Quileute law as a voluntary alternative to the
Tribal Court process; and
B.
provide guidance to Quileute youth consistent with
traditional Quileute cultural and spiritual values.
The Elders Panel is encouraged and expected to use traditional
knowledge and experience to determine the best corrective action for
each participant before the Elders Panel. […] §17.3 AUTHORITY OF THE ELDERS PANEL
The Elders Panel shall have the authority to require any participant to
do any of the following:
A.
perform non-compensated community cultural service
work for elders and/or the Tribe as a way of “paying back” the
community;
B.
attend or participate in traditional events of a spiritual or
cultural nature;
C.
construct a family tree;
D.
make restitution, in a traditional manner, to victims for
damage caused by the participant’s actions;
E.
attend or participate in educational or informational
sessions offered by the Quileute Tribe or individual Quileute
tribal members; and
F.
any other traditional, cultural or spiritual activity the Elders
Panel determines is in the best interest of the participant.