Lisa Rieger of the Justice Center at the University of Alaska Anchorage and Randy Kandel, a researcher in linguistic analysis in legal discourse, have received a $50,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to fund a pilot study examining the efforts of the Kake Tlingit community to address child welfare in the midst of changing legal relationships and priorities at local, state and federal levels. Through observation research and interviews Rieger and Kandel will seek to map formal and informal legal interactions between the tribal structures and state and federal systems, particularly with regard to the Indian Child Welfare Act. They will begin their study this fall.
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