Насилие над коренными американками: поиск справедливости и восстановление власти племен.

Native American women encounter a disproportionate level of sexual violence from verbal abuse to physical harm, including but not limited to domestic and sexual assaults. Such violations not only result in lasting detrimental effects on the individuals subjected to them but also reverberate throughout their entire community, exacerbating social challenges. One proposal emphasizes the reinstatement of tribal authority in the prosecution of crimes committed within Indigenous territories, a strategy intended to foster accountability and justice within the community. Advocates are lobbying for legislative amendments to ensure that non Indigenous men are held responsible under local or national laws.

Amnesty International, in its report "Maze of Injustice: The failure to protect indigenous women from sexual violence in the USA", presented survivors' voices of sexual violence. This research, conducted in 2005 and 2006 across the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation, Oklahoma, and Alaska, involved interviews with victims, tribal, state, and federal law enforcement officials, prosecutors, and tribal judges. The report highlighted the widespread fear among Indigenous women that their assaults would go unaddressed, leading to low reporting rates. The report also indicated high rates of physical violence perpetrated by intimate partners, with 55.5% of female respondents reporting having experienced this form of violence in their lifetime. In the year before the survey, 8.6% of women reported having been victims of intimate partner violence. The reported figures reveal that 83 percent of these individuals, or almost 3 million people, have experienced some form of violence in their lifetime. This violence ranges from psychological aggression to physical violence by intimate partners, stalking, or sexual violence. Both women and men in these communities are victimized at similar rates, with rates of 84.3 percent for women and 81.6 percent for men. However, women experience significantly higher rates of sexual violence and stalking compared to men. In terms of lifetime victimization, American Indian and Alaska Native women experience 1.2 times as much victimization as Caucasian women, while men from these communities experience victimization at a rate 1.3 times higher than Caucasian men. More than two in five American Indian and Alaska Native female victims reported physical injuries as a result of this violence, and almost half needed services, most commonly medical care and legal services. More than a third were unable to receive these services. Most victims of violence experienced at least one act of violence committed by someone of a different race. This rate is 97 percent for women and 90 percent for men, while fewer victims experienced violence by an American Indian or Alaska Native. This supports the call for the sovereign right of federally recognized tribes to prosecute non Indian individuals for crimes committed on tribal lands, a right that had been denied until recently.

The Tribal Sexual Assault Services Program (TSASP), managed by the U. S. Department of Justice, is an initiative to improve and expand services for victims of sexual assault within tribal communities. The scope of the program is quite broad, covering both Indian Country and Alaska Native villages. TSASP projects are designed to provide direct services to victims of sexual assault, such as crisis intervention, accompaniment through medical and legal proceedings, counseling, and other supportive services. The program also aims to enhance the ability of tribes, tribal organizations, and nonprofit tribal organizations to respond to the needs of sexual assault victims effectively and sensitively. A 2004 DOJ report that used data from 1992 2002, found that people indigenous to the Americas ages 12 and older experience 5,900 sexual assaults per year. The report also found that Native peoples in the United States are twice as likely to experience rape/sexual assault compared to all other races. Almost half of all Native American women have experienced rape, physical violence, or stalking by an intimate partner, and one in three Indian women will experience the trauma of rape at some point in her life. Additionally, the murder rate of Native American women on some reservations exceeds the national average by over ten times. Women of All Red Nations (WARN) is an activist group dedicated to issues that affect Native American women. WARN was founded in 1974. Mending the Sacred Hoop is a Native American non profit organization that addresses issues related to violence against Native American women. Much of this violence includes sexual victimization.