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Legal Hurdles Stall Rape Cases on Native Lands

I had one of those proverbial NPR driveway moments when I heard the first in this series of reports on sexual assault of Native American Woman. (Where you turn your car off in the driveway and remain seated to hear the end of the story).

It is astonishing to me that one of every three Native American women will be raped in their lifetime.


Native American women and Alaska Native women suffer disproportionately high levels of sexual assault compared with other women in the United States. They're also the least likely to receive justice, according to a report from Amnesty International. Aid workers say most of the crimes are not perpetrated by Native American men. The report says that the perpetrators are most often outsiders, who know that little will be done to stop them.