Exactly- no charges. Yet you think we should have a pretty serious punishment like that on the whim of some group of elders, maybe not even an elected group, with no judicial oversight. There is certainly corruption and local politics, feuds, etc that go hand in hand with many villages, which could definitely make this practice corruptible. How can native and non native people alike say the Fairbanks Four, which did go through our flawed justice system, was such an injustice yet encourage this, which has no judicial protections, no innocence until proven guilty, etc. I am not going to argue the point further you either get it or you don't.