This has led to a return in the last few years in a number of tribal courts systems, to models of mediation, conciliation or so called 'peacemaker' systems, based on Six Nation's models. There's been more linguistic flexibility. A number of court systems routinely are working bilingually. Judges tend to be, in the best of these systems, far more sensitive to, familiar with, and responsive to the community situation and cultural standards of what is just. In the best cases, they also tend to be highly mediatory and conciliatory.
People go away feeling better instead of just being mad at the judge and the result.
Community confidence and support, in the best tribal court systems, has been buoyed. And in some systems, there has been the positive development of a common law system of standards in fields like property and tort, which are totally independent, which are new, which work and which people think are fair. They have evolved as new systems of common law that are appropriate to the economic and social relations in that community. The United States and Canada are not only places where these topics are being discussed. For example, Greenland, which is now in a process of completing a transition of home rule from Denmark, has its own Inuit Judicial System which is highly effective.