This article is published under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.ishments. Unfortunately, much of this expanding literature has focused on the experiences and impacts of systems of monetary sanctions on people who are Black, Latinx, or White- Native Americans and Monetary SanctionsroBert stewa rt, Br ie a n na wat ters, v eronica Horow it z, rya n P. l a rson, Br i a n sa rgen t, a nd cHr istoPHer uggen Native Americans are disproportionately affected by the criminal legal system, yet comparative analyses of criminal legal outcomes and experiences among racial and ethnic groups rarely center the experiences of Native Americans. This multimethod study examines how monetary sanctions are affecting Native American populations in Minnesota. Drawing on administrative criminal court data and qualitative fieldwork, we find that Native Americans are subject to among the largest overall legal financial obligations (LFOs) in criminal court and carry the largest average LFO debt loads relative to other racial and ethnic groups in Minnesota, particularly when proximal to tribal lands. Moreover, monetary sanctions exacerbate existing poverty and spatial isolation in rural areas, compounding and further entrenching historical, systemic disadvantages that Native communities already face. We contextualize these findings within the broader history of U.S. settler colonialism, resource extraction, and dispossession.
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