Decolonizing Anti-Rape Law and Strategizing Accountability in Native American Communities

In: Social justice: a journal of crime, conflict and world order, Band 37, Heft 4, S. 36-43

Abstract

Antiviolence advocates often find themselves working with the contradictions of struggling for a vision of justice within the constraints of the United States legal system. Perhaps the greatest contradictions are those felt by many Native advocates who understand the United States to be a settler colonial state. The incidence of violence against Native women has reached epidemic rates. People who perpetrate sexual assault against Native women are generally white. Because of the complex jurisdictional issues involving tribal lands, most sexual assaults against Native women are committed with impunity. The intersections of gender violence and colonialism in Native women's lives force numerous contradictions upon Native antiviolence advocates. Adapted from the source document.