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Tuesday, December 14, 2010
The Social Ecology of Native Girls' Vulnerability, by Avi Âviâja
INDIVIDUAL:
1. Poverty.
2. Physical/Sexual Abuse.
3. Parents affected by generational Trauma.
4. Parents affected by FSAD/Mental Illness.
5. Prostitution/Survival sex.
6. Substance Abuse.
NEIGHBORHOOD/COMMUNITY/ENVIRONMENT:
1. Social Isolation.
2. Visible Active Sex Trade.
3. The Don’t Talk Rule.
4. Limited Jobs, Few Options for Education and Career Planning.
5. Community normalization of Violence.
6. Gang Activity.
7. Crime based underground Economy.
INFLUENCE OF THE MAJORITY SOCIETY:
A. Government action:
1. Cultural and Human Genocide.
2. Reservation System.
3. Urban Relocation.
B. Media Glamorization of sexual exploitation:
1. Sex as Marketing Tool.
2. Emphasis on money as proof of Success.
3. Targeting of Native women for sexual exploitation.
• Unequal gendered consequences for roles in prostitution.
• Federal definition of “desiring” Victims.
• Government priorities based on group size and influence.
• Underfunded “Safety net” Systems.
• Racism.
• Socioeconomic inequality.
C. Government Action:
1. Boarding Schools.
2. Indian Adoption.
3. PROJECT Sterilization.
Labels:
ageism,
Indigenous experience,
Indigenous women's activism,
poverty,
prostitution,
racism,
rapism,
reproductive rights,
sexism,
sexual exploitation,
the oppression of girls,
white Christian atrocity
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