Biography

ADA PECOS MELTON, MPA, is an enrolled member of the Pueblo of Jemez. She has served as a juvenile probation officer and director of tribal justice programs. She is President of American Indian Development Associates, a research, training, and technical assistance firm in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

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  Tradition and Transition

  Healing Justice for American Indian Youth

  by Ada Pecos Melton, MPA

  Indigenous traditions of justice that favor communal health over individual retribution restore peace, harmony, and balance to the whole.

  • Articles
  • June - August 2005
  • 4 pages

  Topics:

  Community and Society, Indigenous Wisdom, Relationships and Family