Unfortunately, for American Indian women, it’s often rape, and, unlike other ethnic groups, increasing the “unfortunately,” the rapes are often by non-Indians. And, the rapes are usually much more violent than the national average.
Indian cops have had no enforcement power over non-Indians for 30 years now, a fact my dad used to chortle about while I was growing up in Gallup, N.M., near the Big Rez, aka the Navajo Reservation.
There’s not enough FBI agents, especially in a place about as big as all New England, to conduct enforcement. Besides that, FBI cops stand out like a sore thumb (in the Southwest, all the Mormon FBI agents come home to roost), and aren’t trusted by the natives anyway.
More financial aid isn’t enough.
Only reversing the 1978 Oliphant SCOTUS decision is enough.
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