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without any legislative base. However, a key principle in these developments has beenimplementing self-determination at the grass roots level. In other words, communities havecontinually sought their own solutions to the problem of the over-representation of Indigenousyoung people in the juvenile justice system (Dodson 1995, Dodson 1996, Cunneen and White 1995 pages152-3).The principle of self-determination and the need for the development of Indigenouscommunity responses to deal with Indigenous young people were fundamental to the mainrecommendation from the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody designed toprevent the removal of Indigenous youth through juvenile justice or welfare intervention.Recommendation 62 called on governments to negotiate with Aboriginal communities andorganisations to find solutions. ATSIC has reminded the Inquiry of the importance of thisrecommendation (submission 684 page 42).