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Caweny YIn HAS2C.02 24/02/2019

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To the Indigenous Woman -A poem by the 1491s (short version)

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All are equal before the law and are entitled without any discrimination to equal protection of the law. All are entitled to equal protection against any discrimination in violation of this Declaration and against any incitement to such discrimination.

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Everyone is entitled to all the rights and freedoms set forth in this Declaration, without distinction of any kind, such as race, colour, sex, language, religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin, property, birth or other status.

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Defending Native American Women And Children's Rights

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Defending Native American Women And Children's Rights

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The US government should protect the rights the Native American people deserve. The government should make the laws apply to non-Natives in some cases with minimal changes to the law that may affect Native people’s lives. The abused ones should also be brave and stand up for themselves. They need to be aware that they have all the rights as a human, and don’t be afraid to defend for their own rights.

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Children learn how the world works by the people around them, and family is a big part of it. Children are aware of, and also victims of power imbalances in society and family. All children in homes where there is domestic violence suffer, and what children learn at home contributes to who they become as adults. If they witness or victimized by domestic abuse, they are more likely to become abusive than children grew up without domestic abuse in their home.

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People are born to be equal and free, we ought to have our own rights as human. Native women and children are not the property of their husbands or fathers, they are independent, free individuals. They should have their rights on the tribal land as well.

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People need to stop violence against native American women and children, and the government needs to defend and protect the rights of Native American people, especially women and children.

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People need to stop violence against native American women and children, and the government needs to defend and protect the rights of Native American people, especially women and children.

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After colonization,

The colonizer that came to this country had a history where women and children were the legal property of the father or husband. A woman took the last name of her husband so that other men would know that she was not sexually available. The wedding ring and marriage came together as a symbol of ownership as well. With ownership comes the privilege of treating your property however you choose.

Because women and children were property, they had few rights while husbands had the legal right to beat wives. Today, women and children are not the legal property of husbands and fathers. However, attitudes have been slow to keep up with the law and many men still believe it is their “privilege” to control women. Native women and children are still being abused on tribal lands nowadays as a long-term effect of European colonization centuries ago.

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Violence against Native women is a result of colonization.

Before colonization,

Women were valued and honored in Native cultures. Almost all native creation stories have women being made first. Native women were respected and valued. Courtship practices reflected this attitude toward women. Native American male ancestors demonstrated their ability to protect and provide for her the woman through courtship rituals. In marriage, a woman and her children did not take the father’s last name because they were not property of the man. Everyone had his or her own names, acknowledging individuality and personal sovereignty.

There was no battle of the sexes. Women and men were not considered “opposites,” or one inferior, the other superior. They were partners that respected and balanced each other.

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For more than 35 years, United States law has stripped Indian nations of all criminal authority over non-Indians. Until recent changes in the law, Indian nations were unable to prosecute non-Indians, who reportedly commit the vast majority of sexual violence against Native women. Many Native women are too demoralized to report rape.  Federal prosecutors decline to prosecute over one half of sexual abuse cases as well.  As the result, more than 80 percent of sex crimes on reservations are committed by non-Indian men.

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84 percent of American Indian women have experienced some form of violence in their lifetimes.

Native women has the prevalence of violence exposure at rates ranging from 46–91%. While non-Native populations had prevalence rates ranging from 7–51%.

Prevalence rates of rape among Native American population is as high as 34.1%, which is nearly twice the rates among women of other ethnicities, while 86 percent of reported cases are perpetrated by non-Natives.

58.7% of Native American women had been victims of domestic violence, resulting in severe physical trauma in 39.1% of these women.

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Violence was and is threatening the harmony needed for Native Americans to survive on tribal lands.

In the United States, violence against indigenous women and children has reached unprecedented levels on tribal lands. More than 4 in 5 of Native American women have experienced violence, and more than one half of them have experienced sexual assault. They suffer physical and sexual violence at rates far exceeding women of other ethnicities. A majority of the reasons is that some of the tribal laws don't apply to non-Native perpetrators, and a lot of the victims are too afraid to tell the truth. These all come together has made the perpetrators even more rampant.......