{"id":9962,"date":"2019-11-07T19:07:28","date_gmt":"2019-11-08T02:07:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/btsadv.wpengine.com\/?p=9962"},"modified":"2022-09-05T09:51:29","modified_gmt":"2022-09-05T16:51:29","slug":"indigenous-communities-domestic-violence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/breakthesilencedv.org\/?p=9962","title":{"rendered":"Indigenous Communities &amp; Domestic Violence"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><a href=\"https:\/\/breakthesilencedv.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/dulcey-lima-AQxl8gSYJ-c-unsplash.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-9963 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/breakthesilencedv.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/dulcey-lima-AQxl8gSYJ-c-unsplash-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>By Sunny Lim<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Currently, there are 573 indigenous tribes, including Native Alaskan or Inuit, recognized by the federal government. Domestic violence, sexual assault, and abuse are prevalent within indigenous communities, and the statistics reflect it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The National Congress of American Indians (NCAI) Policy Research Center released a <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncai.org\/attachments\/PolicyPaper_tWAjznFslemhAffZgNGzHUqIWMRPkCDjpFtxeKEUVKjubxfpGYK_Policy%20Insights%20Brief_VAWA_020613.pdf\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">policy brief<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> in February 2013, focusing on updated statistics for Native women and violence. The report shows indigenous women and communities face higher rates of violence compared to all other groups. There are a variety of factors that contribute to the high rates of domestic violence and sexual assault in Native communities such as lack of legal protection and prosecution of perpetrators in tribal lands.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The statistics on violence and sexual assault against Native women are:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Alaskan Natives and Native Americans are at least two times more likely (compared to all other racial groups) to be sexually assaulted in their lifetime.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">During their lifetimes, 61 percent of Native women have been assaulted, and 34 percent of them have been raped.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">39 percent of Native women will face violence from a spouse\/intimate partner during their lifetime compared to 27 percent of white women.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The statistics on perpetrators are:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">On average, 67 percent of the attackers are non-Native as described by indigenous victims of rape and sexual assault while 63 percent of offenders are non-Native for victims of physical assault.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">For an average of 71 percent in rape and sexual assault cases, women knew the perpetrator as either an intimate partner, acquaintance, or a person outside of the community.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">59 percent of indigenous women were in relationships with non-Native men in 2010<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Also in 2010, 46 percent of people living on tribal lands were non-Native<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The statistics regarding locations of the crimes are:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">59 percent of physical abuse and sexual assault occurred inside a private residence or near one.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The rates of violence against indigenous women in suburban, rural, and urban areas are on average two times higher than all other racial groups.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Women are murdered at more than 10 times the national average on certain tribal lands.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Looking at the statistics, they show the threat of domestic violence and sexual assault in Native communities as critical ongoing issues. Based on the data, non-Natives form a majority of violent offenders.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">However, justice is difficult to find in these cases. The media fails to raise awareness of the issue and about missing Native women. Prosecutors also refuse to get involved with domestic violence and sexual assault cases.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">There has been widespread criticism against the media for failing to report about missing Native women through news reports even though Native women are reported missing or murdered <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2018\/11\/15\/667335392\/police-in-many-u-s-cities-fail-to-track-murdered-missing-indigenous-women\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">10 times the average rate<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. Native communities have advocated for more media coverage such as creating social media campaigns with the hashtag #AmINext and protesting with red painted on their faces and dresses to symbolize the blood of unsolved murder cases of indigenous women. Because of the high murder rate, almost every person has a personal story to share about knowing a niece, mother, sister, or a granddaughter disappearing.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Because some police departments have failed and refused to properly investigate cases, indigenous communities have started doing the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2018\/11\/15\/667335392\/police-in-many-u-s-cities-fail-to-track-murdered-missing-indigenous-women\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">job<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. They\u2019ve created a database of murder and missing cases from Canada and the United States. They\u2019ve also tailored the database to include tribal affiliations to identify which indigenous community the women came from in order to alert tribal members more easily. Because there were no comprehensive databases about indigenous women, most police departments classified many indigenous cases\u2019 races as white instead of including the proper tribe. This made it difficult to accurately estimate the number of cases as well as notifying families.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">According to the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/indianlaw.org\/issue\/ending-violence-against-native-women\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Indian Law Resource Center<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, policymakers need to reform federal law to restore legal power to Native communities. <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hcn.org\/articles\/tribal-affairs-why-native-american-women-still-have-the-highest-rates-of-rape-and-assault\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Tribal courts<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> don&#8217;t have legal jurisdiction to prosecute non-Native violent offenders for rape and domestic violence despite occurring on tribal territory. Outside law enforcement refuses to get involved, and resources are scarce for tribal judicial systems. Because of these legal issues, some non-Natives have also trespassed onto tribal lands with the intention of harming indigenous women because they know they can get away with the crime.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">If you or someone you know is in an abusive relationship, there is help. You can visit the Break the Silence Against Domestic Violence website at www.breakthesilencedv.org or chat with one of our helpline advocates at 855-287-1777.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[348,569],"tags":[92,142,90,22,38,180,143,72,32],"class_list":["post-9962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-domestic-abuse","tag-abuse","tag-awareness","tag-domestic-violence","tag-educational","tag-racism-and-domestic-violence","tag-rape","tag-sexual-abuse","tag-sexual-assault","tag-stop-domestic-violence"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Indigenous Communities &amp; Domestic Violence - Break the Silence Against Domestic Violence<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/breakthesilencedv.org\/?p=9962\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Indigenous Communities &amp; 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