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by Canada’s RCMP that Native women are largely victimized by Native men. Among trafficked
Native women in Minnesota, approximately 78% of “clients” were white, which is consistent
with findings that reveal how, among the general population of Native women, 67% of rapes
suffered by Native women are committed by non-Natives, 80% of sex crimes on reservations
are committed by non-Natives, and that, according to the US Department of Justice (DOJ),
86% of all reported sex crimes against Native women are perpetrated by non-Natives. DOJ
data also indicates that in the region of 90% of pimps and traffickers of Native women
are non-Native. For more than a decade, the DOJ has estimated that Native women are around
2.5 times more likely to be victims of sexual assault when compared to the general population.
“Under the current Violence Against Women Act, a Native victimized by a non-Native offender
has no recourse for justice in tribal courts,” writes Ellwood, which underscores the need to
Sister revisit the question of jurisdiction with the intention of reconstituting it. “When one in three

Native American women will be raped in their lifetimes, that is an assault on our national
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conscience,” declared former President Obama, “it is an affront to our shared humanity; it is
something that we cannot allow to continue.” But it does continue, and it is facilitated by
ineptitude not just in the highest offices in Washington, DC., but in similar halls of authority
Granddaughter throughout the Americas and beyond. A 2014 RCMP report revealed that between 1980 and
2012, some 1,181 indigenous women went missing or were known to have been murdered.
Aunt In Canada, Native women are six times more likely to be the victims of homicide. On the other
side of the world, a 2012 Australian Institute of Criminology report found that nationally, First
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Nation Australian women were also six times more likely to be murdered than non-indigenous
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women. In some areas of Australia, indigenous women are 80 times more likely to be victims
of violence.
Seemingly, irrespective of the continent, today’s “man camps” of the “drill, baby frack”
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corporate barons are yesterday’s trading posts, mining squats, and the railroad’s “hell-on-
wheels,” though in sections of the Amazon, those mining squats remain. “Sexual exploitation
is very much prevalent in illegal mining areas, especially in Peru and Bolivia, and my impression
is that the girls are getting younger and younger. The scale is staggering,” warns Livia Wagner,
author of a recent report by the Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized
Crime. Wagner documents girls as young as 12 working in brothels and bars around illegal
gold mines in the Peruvian Amazon. The report highlights child labor and sex trafficking of
young girls and women in multiple areas of Latin America where illegal mining and extractive
operations are rampant, many of which are in or bordering indigenous communities.