Stupid Foreigners

svnoyi:

eccentricsoul:

svnoyi:

saskgirly:

For the Indigenous Women

neetainari:

chiefelk:

Native women are murdered at 10 times the national rate; 1 out 3 Native women will be raped in her lifetime, and 3 out of 5 physically assaulted.  Even worse, 88% of the perpetrators are non-Indian and cannot be prosecuted by tribal governments.  Stand and take action now to restore safety and justice for Native women. 

Honor women, save VAWA.

Relevant.

This is NEVER irrelevant.

Wow, are you serious? This is crazy, I wonder whats the cause of all this..??

A few different things:

• The historical (and more modern-day as well, of course) sexualization of Native women
• The fact that tribal governments have a near impossible time prosecuting non-Natives who rape and assault native women
• The fact that residential schools introduced rape, torture, and violence into our cultures by kidnapping children and assaulting them in every possible way, making so they had no concept of how actual parenting was supposed to be
• The fact that our bodies are seen like the land we are native to. Conquering us leads to a better hold on the Americas. By assaulting native women, native women are forced to give birth to half breed babies who are just that much closer to being considered non-Indian by the government and that much closer to completing the American genocide. Invading us invades our lives, our cultures, and our families.
  

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