Cruel and unusual?A 17-year-old girl felt the sting of Native justice in September 1994. A chronic runaway, the teenager was given five strokes with a belt as punishment. A tribal court of the Warm Springs, Oregon Warm Springs, also known as the Warm Springs Agency, is a community located on the Warm Springs Indian Reservation, in Jefferson County, Oregon, United States. The community is named for the nearby Warm Springs River. confederation brought back the custom of whipping WHIPPING, punishment. The infliction of stripes. 2. This mode of punishment, which is still practiced in some of the states, is a relict of barbarism; it has yielded in most of the middle and northern states to the penitentiary system. after more than two decades of non-use. The whipman was a common feature of many Northwest Indian tribes INDIAN TRIBE. A separate and distinct community or body of the aboriginal Indian race of men found in the United States. 2. Such a tribe, situated within the boundaries of a state, and exercising the powers of government and, sovereignty, under the national in ancient times. He rode from family to family to punish children for wrongdoing wrong·do·er n. One who does wrong, especially morally or ethically. wrong  do by lashing them with a willow branch. Under the
U.S. Constitution, this type of punishment is not allowed because it is
considered cruel and unusual. However, the tribal court which handed out
the sentence is exempt from the Constitution because of the sovereign
status of Indian tribes.
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