Predatory Colonialism: Indigenous Women and the Violence of Sexual Objectification in the United States

2021 ◽  
Vol 30 (2) ◽  
pp. 253-278
Author(s):  
Gregory D. Smithers
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Indigenous Women ◽  
Sexual Objectification

scholarly journals Severe Maternal Morbidity and Mortality Among Indigenous Women in the United States

2020 ◽  
Vol 135 (2) ◽  
pp. 294-300 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katy B. Kozhimannil ◽  
Julia D. Interrante ◽  
Alena N. Tofte ◽  
Lindsay K. Admon
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Maternal Morbidity ◽  
The United States ◽  
Indigenous Women ◽  
Morbidity And Mortality ◽  
Severe Maternal Morbidity ◽  
Maternal Morbidity And Mortality

The Women of the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe Reservation

2019 ◽  
pp. 87-104
Author(s):  
Claradina Soto ◽  
Toni Handboy ◽  
Ruth Supranovich ◽  
Eugenia L. Weiss
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Native Americans ◽  
Indigenous Communities ◽  
The United States ◽  
Indigenous Women ◽  
Future Generations ◽  
The World ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Cheyenne River

This chapter describes the impact of colonialism on indigenous women with a focus on the experience of the Lakota women on the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe Reservation in South Dakota. It explores the experiences of indigenous women as related to history, culture, intrapersonal violence, and internalized oppression. A case study of a Lakota woman is provided as an example of strength and triumph in overcoming adversity and being empowered despite the challenges of marginalization faced by many Native Americans in the United States and indigenous women throughout the world. The chapter discusses how readers can be advocates and actively engage in decolonizing and dismantling systems of oppression to protect future generations and to allow indigenous communities to heal and revitalize.

Incarcerated Stories

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shannon Speed
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Settler Colonialism ◽  
The United States ◽  
Structural Condition ◽  
State Violence ◽  
Indigenous Women ◽  
Women Migrants ◽  
Gender Ideologies ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Sophisticated Analysis

Indigenous women migrants from Central America and Mexico face harrowing experiences of violence before, during, and after their migration to the United States, like all asylum seekers. But as Shannon Speed argues, the circumstances for Indigenous women are especially devastating, given their disproportionate vulnerability to neoliberal economic and political policies and practices in Latin America and the United States, including policing, detention, and human trafficking. Speed dubs this vulnerability "neoliberal multicriminalism" and identifies its relation to settler structures of Indigenous dispossession and elimination. Using innovative ethnographic practices to record and recount stories from Indigenous women in U.S. detention, Speed demonstrates that these women's vulnerability to individual and state violence is not rooted in a failure to exercise agency. Rather, it is a structural condition, created and reinforced by settler colonialism, which consistently deploys racial and gender ideologies to manage the ongoing business of occupation and capitalist exploitation. With sensitive narration and sophisticated analysis, this book reveals the human consequences of state policy and practices throughout the Americas and adds vital new context for understanding the circumstances of migrants seeking asylum in the United States.

Mood and anxiety problems in perinatal Indigenous women in Australia, New Zealand, Canada, and the United States: A critical review of the literature

2013 ◽  
Vol 51 (1) ◽  
pp. 93-111 ◽  
Author(s):  
Angela Bowen ◽  
Vicky Duncan ◽  
Shelley Peacock ◽  
Rudy Bowen ◽  
Laura Schwartz ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Critical Review ◽  
The United States ◽  
Indigenous Women ◽  
Review Of The Literature

Rising Waters, Rising Threats: The Human Trafficking of Indigenous Women in the Circumpolar Region of the United States and Canada

2014 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 162-188 ◽  
Author(s):  
Victoria Sweet
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
First Nations ◽  
Human Trafficking ◽  
Indigenous People ◽  
The United States ◽  
Indigenous Women ◽  
Close Monitoring ◽  
Sex Trade ◽  
Legal Standards ◽  
Trafficking Victims

Among indigenous people around the world, human trafficking is taking a tremendous toll. While trafficking is not an exclusively indigenous issue, disproportionately large numbers of indigenous people, particularly women, are modern trafficking victims. In Canada, several groups concerned about human trafficking have conducted studies primarily focused on the sex trade because many sex workers are actually trafficking victims under both domestic and international legal standards. These studies found that First Nations women and youth represent between 70 and 90% of the visible sex trade in areas where the Aboriginal population is less than 10%. Very few comparable studies have been conducted in the United States, but studies in both Minnesota and Alaska found similar statistics among U.S. indigenous women. With the current interest in resource extraction, and other opportunities in the warming Arctic, people from outside regions are traveling north in growing numbers. This rise in outside interactions increases the risk that the indigenous women may be trafficked. Recent crime reports from areas that have had an influx of outsiders such as Williston, North Dakota, U.S. and Fort McMurray, Alberta, Canada, both part of the new oil boom, demonstrate the potential risks that any group faces when people with no community accountability enter an area. The combination of development in rural locations, the demographic shift of outsiders moving to the north, and the lack of close monitoring in this circumpolar area is a potential recipe for disaster for indigenous women in the region. This paper suggests that in order to protect indigenous women, countries and indigenous nations must acknowledge this risk and plan for ways to mitigate risk factors.

scholarly journals Violence Against Native American Women in the United States

2013 ◽  
Vol 20 ◽  
pp. 174-187
Author(s):  
Jennifer Di Paolo
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Human Rights ◽  
Native American ◽  
Sexual Assault ◽  
The United States ◽  
Indigenous Women ◽  
Native American Women ◽  
Human Rights Abuses ◽  
American Women ◽  
Indian Nations

In response to the topic of Global Justice and Human Rights: Country Case Studies, I will discuss the origin and continuation of violence against Native American women in the United States. In a report named Maze of Injustice: The Failure to Protect Indigenous Women from Violence by Amnesty International, the organization deemed the current status of violence against indigenous women one of the most pervasive yet hidden human rights abuses. The U.S Department of Justice has found that Native American and Native Alaskan women are 2.5 times more likely to be raped or sexually assaulted. During an International Expert Group Meeting discussing Combatting Violence Against Indigenous Women and Girls, the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs declared it a human rights issue of epidemic proportions. One in three Native American women are raped and three in five are physically assaulted. In reference to interracial violence, four out of five Native American victims of sexual assault reported that the perpetrator was white. Unfortunately due to the shame and stigma surrounding topics such as sexual assault and rape it is estimated that in reality these numbers are far higher. Scholars and historians of pre-colonial Native societies have found that during this period women held prominent positions and violence against women was rare. With colonization came a radical change to the role of women in Native society. Gender based violence and the exclusion of women in important positions was a powerful tool used by British settlers to dismantle the structures of native society and ultimately conquer it. Presently, due to the inadequate legal power given to Indian nations the crisis is not being dealt with efficiently. For example, Indian nations are unable to prosecute non-Indian offenders. In my discussion of violence against Native women in the United States I will begin by analyzing its colonial origins. Next I will discuss why this violence persists today with reference to laws and judicial processes. Finally, I will discuss what must be done to end these human rights abuses.

scholarly journals Diabetes in pregnancy among indigenous women in Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the United States: a systematic review of the evidence for screening in early pregnancy

2013 ◽  
Vol 29 (4) ◽  
pp. 241-256 ◽  
Author(s):  
Catherine Chamberlain ◽  
Bridgette McNamara ◽  
Emily D. Williams ◽  
Daniel Yore ◽  
Brian Oldenburg ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Systematic Review ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Early Pregnancy ◽  
The United States ◽  
Indigenous Women ◽  
Diabetes In Pregnancy ◽  
In Pregnancy
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