Native women confront high rates of violence in Indian Country

Native women rallied on Capitol Hill on Thursday as they continued efforts to reduce high rates of violence in Indian Country.

The National Congress of American Indians, the National Indigenous Women’s Resource Center and the Indian Law Resource Center hosted an overflow crowd at the U.S. Capitol to discuss a new report from the Department of Justice. The data confirms that Native women and men are victimized at rates far higher than the rest of the population and that most of the perpetrators are from another race.

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