NCJ Number
239535
Journal
Restoration of Native Sovereignty and Safety for Native Women Volume: 17 Dated: 2011 Pages: 1-36
Editor(s)
Jacqueline Agtuca
Date Published
2011
Length
36 pages
Annotation
This issue of Restoration of Native Sovereignty and Safety for Native Women contains four feature articles on a "Critical Time to Protect Native Women and Advance Tribal Jurisdiction," lessons of the NCAI (National Congress of American Indians) Task Force on Violence Against Women, international efforts to counter violence against Native women, and a commentary on the efforts of the National Indigenous Women's Resource Center, as well as updates on the 2011 reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA).
Abstract
An editorial entitled "A Critical Time to Protect Native Women and Advance Tribal Jurisdiction" argues that limitations placed on tribal government jurisdiction by the Federal Government have constrained tribal efforts to address the disproportionate violence against American Indian women, 88 percent of which is committed by non-Indians. The "Lessons of the NSAI Task Force on Violence Against Women" pertain to the Task Force's strategic goal "to increase safety and restore the sacred status of American Indian and Alaska Native Women." The "Inter-American Commission on Human Rights Grants Thematic Hearing on Violence Against Native Women" addresses issues related to the October 25, 2011, hearing of the Commission, which will inform the Commission about the "extreme rates of violence against Native women, and the role of U.S. law in creating and sustaining an epidemic of violence in Indian country." The Commission is an autonomous organ of the Organization of American States, created by countries to protect human rights in the Americas. Another feature article profiles the work of Sacred Circle, a national resource center to end violence against Native women, which was established in 1998 as the fifth member of the domestic violence resource network created in 1993 by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.