US: The Connection Between Pipelines and Sexual Violence (Commentary)
New Republic – October 15, 2019
But who, exactly, is responsible for these Native women disappearing? That answer is much more complex. Sometimes, as in the case of Northern Cheyenne woman Hanna Harris, it’s a pair of non-tribal citizen transients; other times, it’s a member of the tribal community; and still other times, it’s a trucker or a passerby temporarily stopping through the reservation, dipping in and out of up to three different law enforcement jurisdictions before the community can even realize someone is missing. It’s that last scenario that led King and Dupree to announce their reservations’ withdrawal from the MIP task force. Pipelines, a growing body of research suggests, can actually fuel violence against Native women.
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