Indigenous American Women Facing 'Dire' Violence

[Lummy]

That story was out of the Winnipeg area.

Canada also has the same serious problem with missing, assaulted and murdered native women. It's a national shame.

Sure is. Very weird too.

It's been awhile, but I think this was the guy in BC: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/w...-a8175716.html

[Grokmaster]

This stunned me, I have never heard a whisper about this before this article. How can this if true have been kept secret so long.



Indigenous American Women Facing 'Dire' Violence That's Hard to Track, Study Finds


Violence against Native American and Alaska Native women extends far beyond reservations into urban areas, but it's difficult to even track cases of missing and murdered indigenous women in the U.S., a new study found.

Murder is the third-leading cause of death for American Indian and Alaska Native women on reservations with a domestic violence rate estimated to be 10 times the national average, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has reported. The was a dearth of research, though, on Native populations in urban areas as 71 percent of indigenous Americans now live off reservations.


An Urban Indian Health Institute study uncovered the difficulty of obtaining these crime stats as they mined departments in 71 cities in 29 states for data on Native crime victims, running into "institutional practices that allow them to disappear not once, but three times — in life, in the media, and in the data."


"Reasons for the lack of quality data include underreporting, racial misclassifcation, poor relationships between law enforcement and American Indian and Alaska Native communities, poor record-keeping protocols, institutional racism in the media, and a lack of substantive relationships between journalists and American Indian and Alaska Native communities," said the report.


Researchers uncovered 506 cases of missing and murdered American Indian and Alaska Native women and girls across the 71 selected cities, with two-thirds of the cases tied to domestic and sexual violence. The victims ranged in age from a baby to an 83-year-old elder, with the average victim age 29 years old.


Since the oldest case identified by researchers happened in 1943, but about two-thirds of the cases in the recovered data happened from 2010 to 2018, researchers suggest the actual number of urban Indian missing or murdered women and girls is "much higher."


"Of the perpetrators UIHI was able to identify, 83% were male and approximately half were non-Native," the report states. "Thirty-eight of the perpetrators were convicted, while nine were never charged, four were acquitted, one had a mistrial, and one committed suicide.
Altogether, 28% of these perpetrators were never found guilty or held accountable. An additional 30 alleged perpetrators have pending charges."


https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politic...k-study-finds/

Like the film "Wind River"....etal….outrageous that these crimes go unsolved, or even UNNOTICED....

[donttread]

This stunned me, I have never heard a whisper about this before this article. How can this if true have been kept secret so long.



Indigenous American Women Facing 'Dire' Violence That's Hard to Track, Study Finds


Violence against Native American and Alaska Native women extends far beyond reservations into urban areas, but it's difficult to even track cases of missing and murdered indigenous women in the U.S., a new study found.

Murder is the third-leading cause of death for American Indian and Alaska Native women on reservations with a domestic violence rate estimated to be 10 times the national average, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has reported. The was a dearth of research, though, on Native populations in urban areas as 71 percent of indigenous Americans now live off reservations.


An Urban Indian Health Institute study uncovered the difficulty of obtaining these crime stats as they mined departments in 71 cities in 29 states for data on Native crime victims, running into "institutional practices that allow them to disappear not once, but three times — in life, in the media, and in the data."


"Reasons for the lack of quality data include underreporting, racial misclassifcation, poor relationships between law enforcement and American Indian and Alaska Native communities, poor record-keeping protocols, institutional racism in the media, and a lack of substantive relationships between journalists and American Indian and Alaska Native communities," said the report.


Researchers uncovered 506 cases of missing and murdered American Indian and Alaska Native women and girls across the 71 selected cities, with two-thirds of the cases tied to domestic and sexual violence. The victims ranged in age from a baby to an 83-year-old elder, with the average victim age 29 years old.


Since the oldest case identified by researchers happened in 1943, but about two-thirds of the cases in the recovered data happened from 2010 to 2018, researchers suggest the actual number of urban Indian missing or murdered women and girls is "much higher."


"Of the perpetrators UIHI was able to identify, 83% were male and approximately half were non-Native," the report states. "Thirty-eight of the perpetrators were convicted, while nine were never charged, four were acquitted, one had a mistrial, and one committed suicide.
Altogether, 28% of these perpetrators were never found guilty or held accountable. An additional 30 alleged perpetrators have pending charges."


https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politic...k-study-finds/

Assimilation would help fix this.

[Common]

I agree, why is there still reservations, that seems to segregate them not help

I would be for the govt buying them some land and building them a home and then them not have to pay any property taxs but get them out of that reservation mentality.