Safety For Native Women Vawa And American Indian Tribes

Author : Jacqueline Agtuca
Publisher : National Indigenous Women's Resource Center
Page : 175 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781500918514

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Safety for Native Women: VAWA and American Indian Tribes by Jacqueline Agtuca Pdf

A powerful presentation of the impact of colonization of American Indian tribes on the safety of Native American women and the changes to address such violence under the Violence Against Women Act. This essential reading reviews through the voices and experiences of Native women the systemic reforms under the Act to remove barriers to justice and their safety. It places the historic changes witnessed over the last twenty years under the Act in the context of the tribal grassroots movement for safety of Native women. Legal practitioners, students and social justice advocates will find this book a powerful and inspirational resource to creating a more just, humane, and safer world.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2020-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0985656611

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Restoration of Sovereignty and Safety for Native Women Magazine by Anonim Pdf

Restoration is a publication dedicated to informing tribal leadership and communities of emerging issues impacting the safety of American Indian and Alaska Native women. The name of the magazine reflects the grassroots strategy of the Task Force that by strengthening the sovereignty of Indian nations to hold perpetrators accountable the safety of Native women will be restored. The magazine is a joint project of the National Congress of American Indians Task Force on Violence Against Women and the National Indigenous Women's Resource Center. It is produced and made available during national NCAI conventions and the annual USDOJ Tribal Consultation on VAWA.

Author : Amnesty International
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Human rights
ISBN : UCSC:32106019283057

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Maze of Injustice by Amnesty International Pdf

More than one in three Native American or Alaska Native women will be raped at some point in their lives. Most do not seek justice because they known they will be met with inaction or indifference. As one support worker said, "Women don't report because it doesn't make a difference. Why report when you are just going to be revictimized?" Sexual violence against women is not only a criminal or social issue, it is a human rights abuse. This report unravels some of the reasons why Indigenous women in the USA are at such risk of sexual violence and why survivors are so frequently denied justice. Chronic under-resourcing of law enforcement and health services, confusion over jurisdiction, erosion of tribal authority, discrimination in law and practice, and indifference -- all these factors play a part. None of this is inevitable or irreversible. The voices of Indigenous women throughout this report send a message of courage and hope that change can and will happen.

Author : Sarah Deer
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2015-11-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781452945736

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The Beginning and End of Rape by Sarah Deer Pdf

Winner of the Labriola Center American Indian National Book Award Despite what major media sources say, violence against Native women is not an epidemic. An epidemic is biological and blameless. Violence against Native women is historical and political, bounded by oppression and colonial violence. This book, like all of Sarah Deer’s work, is aimed at engaging the problem head-on—and ending it. The Beginning and End of Rape collects and expands the powerful writings in which Deer, who played a crucial role in the reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act in 2013, has advocated for cultural and legal reforms to protect Native women from endemic sexual violence and abuse. Deer provides a clear historical overview of rape and sex trafficking in North America, paying particular attention to the gendered legacy of colonialism in tribal nations—a truth largely overlooked or minimized by Native and non-Native observers. She faces this legacy directly, articulating strategies for Native communities and tribal nations seeking redress. In a damning critique of federal law that has accommodated rape by destroying tribal legal systems, she describes how tribal self-determination efforts of the twenty-first century can be leveraged to eradicate violence against women. Her work bridges the gap between Indian law and feminist thinking by explaining how intersectional approaches are vital to addressing the rape of Native women. Grounded in historical, cultural, and legal realities, both Native and non-Native, these essays point to the possibility of actual and positive change in a world where Native women are systematically undervalued, left unprotected, and hurt. Deer draws on her extensive experiences in advocacy and activism to present specific, practical recommendations and plans of action for making the world safer for all.

Author : Sarah Deer,Bonnie Clairmont,Carrie A. Martell,Maureen L. White Eagle
Publisher : Rowman Altamira
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 0759111251

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Sharing Our Stories of Survival by Sarah Deer,Bonnie Clairmont,Carrie A. Martell,Maureen L. White Eagle Pdf

Sharing Our Stories of Survival is a comprehensive treatment of the socio-legal issues that arise in the context of violence against native women--written by social scientists, writers, poets, and survivors of violence.

Author : Stephen L. Pevar
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 561 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2024
Category : History
ISBN : 9780190077556

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The Rights of Indians and Tribes by Stephen L. Pevar Pdf

The Rights of Indians and Tribes is the most popular resource in the field of Federal Indian Law and explains this complex subject in a clear and easy-to-understand way. Using a question-and-answer format, the book covers every important subject impacting Indians and tribes today. The fifth edition includes a Foreword by John Echohawk, Director of the Native American Rights Fund, discusses new legislation, and is updated with hundreds of court decisions that have taken place since the previous edition.

Author : Michael Leroy Oberg
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2015-06-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781118714331

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Native America by Michael Leroy Oberg Pdf

This history of Native Americans, from the period of first contactto the present day, offers an important variation to existingstudies by placing the lives and experiences of Native Americancommunities at the center of the narrative. Presents an innovative approach to Native American history byplacing individual native communities and their experiences at thecenter of the study Following a first chapter that deals with creation myths, theremainder of the narrative is structured chronologically, coveringover 600 years from the point of first contact to the presentday Illustrates the great diversity in American Indian culture andemphasizes the importance of Native Americans in the history ofNorth America Provides an excellent survey for courses in Native Americanhistory Includes maps, photographs, a timeline, questions fordiscussion, and “A Closer Focus” textboxes that providebiographies of individuals and that elaborate on the text, exposing students to issues of race, class, and gender

Author : David E. Wilkins,Heidi Kiiwetinepinesiik Stark
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2017-04-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781442252660

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American Indian Politics and the American Political System by David E. Wilkins,Heidi Kiiwetinepinesiik Stark Pdf

American Indian Politics and the American Political System is the most comprehensive text written from a political science perspective. It analyzes the structures and functions of indigenous governments (including Alaskan Native communities and Hawaiian Natives) and the distinctive legal and political rights these nations exercise internally. It also examines the fascinating intergovernmental relationship that exists between native nations, the states, and the federal government. In the fourth edition, Wilkins and Stark analyze the challenges facing Indigenous nations as they develop new and innovative strategies to defend and demand recognition of their national character and rights. They also seeks to address issues that continue to plague many nations, such as notions of belonging and citizenship, implementation of governing structures and processes attentive to Indigenous political and legal traditions, and the promotion and enactment of sustainable practices that support our interdependence in an increasingly globalized world.

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Indian Affairs (1993- )
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Law
ISBN : PSU:000066756897

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Examining the Prevalence of and Solutions to Stopping Violence Against Indian Women by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Indian Affairs (1993- ) Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Indian Affairs (1993- )
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : UCSD:31822038362935

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Native Women by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Indian Affairs (1993- ) Pdf

Author : Katrina Jagodinsky,Pablo Mitchell
Publisher : University Press of Kansas
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2018-09-19
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780700626793

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Beyond the Borders of the Law by Katrina Jagodinsky,Pablo Mitchell Pdf

In the American imagination “the West” denotes a border—between civilization and wilderness, past and future, native and newcomer—and its lawlessness is legendary. In fact, there was an abundance of law in the West, as in all borderland regions of vying and overlapping claims, jurisdictions, and domains. It is this legal borderland that Beyond the Borders of the Law explores. Combining the concepts and insights of critical legal studies and western/borderlands history, this book demonstrates how profoundly the North American West has been, and continues to be, a site of contradictory, overlapping, and overreaching legal structures and practices steeped in articulations of race, gender, and power. The authors in this volume take up topics and time periods that include Native history, the US-Canada and US-Mexico borders, regions from Texas to Alaska and Montana to California, and a chronology that stretches from the mid-nineteenth century to the near-present. From water rights to women’s rights, from immigrant to indigenous histories, from disputes over coal deposits to child custody, their essays chronicle the ways in which marginalized westerners have leveraged and resisted the law to define their own rights and legacies. For the authors, legal borderlands might be the legal texts that define and regulate geopolitical borders, or they might be the ambiguities or contradictions creating liminal zones within the law. In their essays, and in the volume as a whole, the concept of legal borderlands proves a remarkably useful framework for finally bringing a measure of clarity to a region characterized by lawful disorder and contradiction.

Author : Kim TallBear
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2013-09-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780816685790

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Native American DNA by Kim TallBear Pdf

Who is a Native American? And who gets to decide? From genealogists searching online for their ancestors to fortune hunters hoping for a slice of casino profits from wealthy tribes, the answers to these seemingly straightforward questions have profound ramifications. The rise of DNA testing has further complicated the issues and raised the stakes. In Native American DNA, Kim TallBear shows how DNA testing is a powerful—and problematic—scientific process that is useful in determining close biological relatives. But tribal membership is a legal category that has developed in dependence on certain social understandings and historical contexts, a set of concepts that entangles genetic information in a web of family relations, reservation histories, tribal rules, and government regulations. At a larger level, TallBear asserts, the “markers” that are identified and applied to specific groups such as Native American tribes bear the imprints of the cultural, racial, ethnic, national, and even tribal misinterpretations of the humans who study them. TallBear notes that ideas about racial science, which informed white definitions of tribes in the nineteenth century, are unfortunately being revived in twenty-first-century laboratories. Because today’s science seems so compelling, increasing numbers of Native Americans have begun to believe their own metaphors: “in our blood” is giving way to “in our DNA.” This rhetorical drift, she argues, has significant consequences, and ultimately she shows how Native American claims to land, resources, and sovereignty that have taken generations to ratify may be seriously—and permanently—undermined.

Author : Marianne O. Nielsen,Karen Jarratt-Snider
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2020-05-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780816540419

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Traditional, National, and International Law and Indigenous Communities by Marianne O. Nielsen,Karen Jarratt-Snider Pdf

This volume of the Indigenous Justice series explores the global effects of marginalizing Indigenous law. The essays in this book argue that European-based law has been used to force Indigenous peoples to assimilate, has politically disenfranchised Indigenous communities, and has destroyed traditional Indigenous social institutions. European-based law not only has been used as a tool to infringe upon Indigenous human rights, it also has been used throughout global history to justify environmental injustices, treaty breaking, and massacres. The research in this volume focuses on the resurgence of traditional law, tribal–state relations in the United States, laws that have impacted Native American women, laws that have failed to protect Indigenous sacred sites, the effect of international conventions on domestic laws, and the role of community justice organizations in operationalizing international law. While all of these issues are rooted in colonization, Indigenous peoples are using their own solutions to demonstrate the resilience, persistence, and innovation of their communities. With chapters focusing on the use and misuse of law as it pertains to Indigenous peoples in North America, Latin America, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand, this book offers a wide scope of global injustice. Despite proof of oppressive legal practices concerning Indigenous peoples worldwide, this book also provides hope for amelioration of colonial consequences.

Author : Lavonna L. Lovern
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2021-05-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783030699376

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Global Indigenous Communities by Lavonna L. Lovern Pdf

Global Indigenous Communities is a wide-ranging examination of global Indigenous communities that continue to suffer from colonization and assimilation issues, including intergenerational trauma. The scholarship is interdisciplinary; it is not easily categorized as sociology, anthropology, ethnography, or philosophy, but cuts across all of these disciplines, as well as Indigenous methodologies. The book not only presents an academic study of Indigenous issues, covering Indigenous community life, religion, the environment, economic matters, education, and healthcare, but also incorporates contributions from Carol Locust, EdD, that reflect on her lifetime of experience in Indigenous education and healthcare. Each studied prism of Indigenous life is revealed to be impacted by the experience of intergenerational trauma that results from continued colonization. Ultimately, this book aims to bridge the communication gap between Western and Indigenous scholarship and readership, artfully combining Indigenous approaches with a traditional academic style.

Author : Center for the Coordination of Foreign Manuscript Copying (U.S.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : Archives
ISBN : OSU:32435056487200

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News from the Center by Center for the Coordination of Foreign Manuscript Copying (U.S.) Pdf