Kaelyn Moore

Days where I'm crying because I can't even make food for myself.

Just needing someone to take care of me, which I'm not used to.

And so I can't even imagine being in a situation where you're also, you need to flee someone or someone's taking advantage of the fact that you can't fight back at

It's some of the most heartbreaking stuff I've ever read about.

Yeah.

Well,

this is what i was talking about earlier when we kind of get into the dynamic of michael's family right because he's not a registered tribal member yeah he can't be convicted by the tribal police he can be arrested but he can't be convicted by the tribal police and oftentimes that's the only investigating agency looking into these crimes which i don't understand this and if we do have any listeners that like live on a reservation or are familiar with this like

Not by the tribal police.

By regular or by local law enforcement, official law enforcement agencies.

But...

I think the issue here I have did a little research on this.

Tribal police have inherent authority to enforce tribal laws on reservation lands and exercise criminal jurisdiction over tribal members.

They can arrest and detain non-Native Americans for delivery or state or federal authorities, but they cannot prosecute them due to a 1978 Supreme Court decision.

Oliphant versus Esquimish if we're getting the weeds on it.

The single most damaging legal ruling for indigenous women's safety is what that one is described as.

Yeah.

Here I have that many reservations have just three or four tribal officers patrolling over a million acres.

That's insane.

And they can't prosecute.

Yeah.