About ITWG
Tribes interested in implementing VAWA 2013 were strongly encouraged to join the Intertribal Technical-Assistance Working Group on Special Domestic Violence Criminal Jurisdiction (ITWG). The ITWG is a voluntary working group of designated tribal representatives who may exchange views, information, and advice, peer-to-peer, about how tribes may best implement SDVCJ, combat domestic violence, recognize victims’ rights and safety needs, and safeguard defendants’ rights.
This peer-to-peer technical assistance may cover a broad set of issues, from drafting stronger domestic violence codes and victim-centered protocols and policies, to improving public defender systems, to analyzing detention and correctional options for non-Indians, to designing more broadly representative jury pools.
Tribes participating in the ITWG have also had opportunities to engage with the Departments of Justice and the Interior, which are available to provide technical advice to the working group as a whole and work with individual tribes to address specific issues or concerns as needed.
Participating Tribes:
Cherokee Nation
Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe
Chickasaw Nation
Colorado River Indian Tribes of the Colorado River Indian Reservation
Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation
Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians
Eastern Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma
Fort Peck Assiniboine & Sioux Tribes
Gila River Indian Community
Hopi Tribe of Arizona
Iipay Nation of Santa Ysabel
Kickapoo Tribe of Oklahoma
Little Traverse Bay Band of Odawa Indians
Menominee Indian Tribe of Wisconsin
Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians
Muscogee (Creek) Nation
Nez Perce Tribe
Nottawaseppi Huron Band of Potawatomi
Oneida Tribe of Indians of Wisconsin
Pascua Yaqui Tribe of Arizona
Passamaquoddy Tribe
Pauma Band of Mission Indians
Pawnee Nation of Oklahoma
Penobscot Nation
Pokagon Band of Potawatomi Indians
Port Gamble S’Klallam Tribe
Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation
Pueblo of Isleta
Pueblo of Laguna
Pueblo of Santa Clara
Quapaw Tribe of Oklahoma
Quinault Indian Nation
Sac and Fox Nation
Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community
Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians
Seminole Nation of Oklahoma
Sisseton-Wahpeton Oyate
Spokane Tribe of Indians
Standing Rock Sioux Tribe
Suquamish Indian Tribe
Swinomish Indian Tribal Community
Three Affiliated Tribes of the Fort Berthold Reservation
Tulalip Tribes of Washington
White Earth Nation
Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska