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Native American women are two to three times more likely than women of any other race to experience violence, stalking or sexual assault, according to the Justice Department. More than 4 out of 5 ...
The study also briefly examined how physical violence by intimate partners, stalking, and sexual violence affects American Indian and Alaska Native victims. Among the victims: 66.5 percent of women and 26.0 percent of men expressed concern for their safety. 41.3 percent of women and 20.3 percent of men were physically injured.
In the year leading up to the study, 39.8 percent of American Indian and Alaska Native women had experienced violence, including 14.4 percent who had experienced sexual violence. Overall, more than 1.5 million American Indian and Alaska Native women have experienced violence in their lifetime. Challenges
An overwhelming majority of respondents (75 percent) agreed that violence against Native American women in the United States is a problem and that more government resources should be dedicated to ...
Research shows that violence against American Indian and Alaska Native women in the U.S. is a crisis. Cases of missing or murdered Indigenous women persist nationwide, but without more comprehensive case data in federal databases, the full extent of the problem is unknown.
Native American women and girls are facing an epidemic of violence that is hiding in plain sight. They are being killed or trafficked at rates far higher than the rest of the U.S. population ( on ...
The next iteration of the bill—the Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act of 2013—strengthened protections for Native American women and girls as a result of collaboration among the Indian Law Resource Center, the National Congress for American Indians Task Force on Violence Against Women, Clan Star, Inc., and the National
