Safety For Native Women Vawa And American Indian Tribes

Download or read book Safety for Native Women: VAWA and American Indian Tribes written by Jacqueline Agtuca and published by National Indigenous Women's Resource Center. This book was released on 2014 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A powerful presentation of the impact of colonization of American Indian tribes on the safety of Native American women and the changes to address such violence under the Violence Against Women Act. This essential reading reviews through the voices and experiences of Native women the systemic reforms under the Act to remove barriers to justice and their safety. It places the historic changes witnessed over the last twenty years under the Act in the context of the tribal grassroots movement for safety of Native women. Legal practitioners, students and social justice advocates will find this book a powerful and inspirational resource to creating a more just, humane, and safer world.