Approximately 60 miles north of the U.S.-Mexico border, in southwest Arizona near Tucson, the Pascua Yaqui Tribe is situated on a 2,200-acre reservation. Four to five thousand of the tribe’s 19,000 members reside on the reserve. Single-mother homes, which make up roughly 43% of all Pascua Yaqui households, are the most prevalent household type on the reserve. As stated by the U.S. According to the census, the population of the Tribe’s trust lands and reservation is roughly 12.7% non-Indian. The DOJ received the final Pilot Project Application Questionnaire from the Pascua Yaqui Tribe on December 30, 2013. On February 6, 2014, the Tribe was given permission to begin exercising its SDVCJ, and on February 20, 2014, jurisdiction became effective. A official notice to the community about the new law’s implementation was promptly published by the Tribe in a news release. Following the completion of the Pilot Project, the Tribe made a detailed Pilot Project Summary and Implementation Timeline public for Pascua Yaqui’s adoption of the SDVCJ.
Many of the Pascua Yaqui prosecutors are designated as Special Assistant United States Attorneys (SAUSAs), which enables them to simultaneously serve as prosecutors in federal court. Domestic violence-related offenses make up the great majority …