Native American women are sexually assaulted 2.5 times as often as any other ethnic or racial group. For decades, tens of thousands of Native women have been unable to prosecute the people that rape them on tribal land because of U.S. policy. The 2013 Reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act began to address this […]
CALL TO ACTION: Justice for Tondalo Hall
Tondalo Hall, a 30-year old mother from Oklahoma, is serving a 30 year sentence–15 times that of the man who abused her and her children–for “failing to protect” her children from his abuse. It’s a cruel failure of the justice system that all too often punishes survivors of domestic violence. Right now, we have a chance […]
Healing Generations: Shawn Partridge on Colonization, VAWA, and the Monument Quilt
By Alison Rose Fry Native women in the United States are 2.5 times more likely to be victims of sexual assault. Shawn Partridge is too familiar with this reality. She has served as the Program Director of the Family Violence Prevention Program of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation for nearly three years. This week, as part […]
FOUR HUNDRED STORIES STITCH TOGETHER MONUMENT TO SURVIVORS OF RAPE AND ABUSE IN DOWNTOWN TULSA
Native American women are sexually assaulted 2.5 times as often as any other ethnic or racial group. For decades, tens of thousands of Native women have been unable to prosecute the people that rape them on tribal land because of U.S. policy. The 2013 Reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act began to address this […]
FOUR HUNDRED STORIES STITCH TOGETHER MASSIVE PUBLIC DEMONSTRATION AT OKLAHOMA STATE CAPITOL ABOUT VIOLENCE AGAINST NATIVE WOMEN
Native American women are sexually assaulted 2.5 times as often as any other ethnic or racial group. For decades, tens of thousands of Native women have been unable to prosecute the people that assault them on tribal land because of U.S. policy. The 2013 Reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act began to address this […]