This review published in Indian Country Today Media Network covers Sarah Deer’s upcoming book The Beginning and End of Rape: Confronting Sexual Violence in Native America. Citing the statistic that “American Indian and Alaska Native women are raped at a rate 3 to 10 times greater than the national average” Deer argues that “rape is a direct and serious threat to tribal sovereignty.”
Quotes from the review:
“If we look at the foundational experiences that the teens who commit suicide have had we find a very common theme in quite a few cases that these suicides are connected to some form of sexual violence that they’ve experienced.”
Sarah Deer is an attorney and professor of law at William Mitchell College of Law in St. Paul, Minnesota.
Read the entire review
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