Public safety statistics reflect the serious challenges. Native Americans and Alaska Natives are more than twice as likely to be victims of a violent crime, and Native American women are at least two times more likely to be raped or sexually assaulted compared with others.
For Toulou, a descendant of the Washington state-based Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation, part of addressing those grim realities is expanding the power of tribal justice systems.
Tribes had been barred, for example, from prosecuting non-Natives under a 1978 Supreme Court decision, even if the crime happened on reservations, making it harder to seek justice in many cases. That changed somewhat in 2013 with a federal law that allows tribes to prosecute non-Natives in a limited set of domestic violence cases. The authority was expanded in 2022 to include cases such as violence against children and stalking.
Don’t bother trying to improve people’s lives, just make punishing easier!!
in Indian country
I was wondering why the heck anyone would refer to India that way
Yeah just refer to native americans as indians, that’s totally not fucked up or anything
Best I can figure is that you’re trying to use a federal agency’s choice to refer to native americans as indians as a way to justify its use in general, as if the US government is the poster child for respecting the culture and well-being of indigenous peoples instead of being the main perpetrators of racial prejudice and strife against said peoples for hundreds of years now. If this is the case, you’ve really missed the fucking boat bud.
