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2019-03-23T17:44:01.000Z
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Video Title:
Safety for Our Sisters: Ending Violence Against Native Women – 5 Cherrah Giles
Description:
Marking Women’s History Month, this symposium draws attention to the pervasive issue of violence against Native women, who suffer disproportionately high levels of rape, domestic violence, and attacks. In this segment, Cherrah Giles, National Indigenous Women’s Resource Center, speaks on "More than Seven Times for the Next Seven Generations." Cherrah Giles, a citizen of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation and of Cherokee descent, is board chairwoman of the National Indigenous Women’s Resource Center, an organization to address domestic violence and enhance safety of American Indian women and children. A trained social worker, Giles’s professional experience has ranged from child welfare investigator, to tribal college instructor, to director of operations for a Native-woman owned civil engineering firm. She served over ten years as a legislator on the Muscogee (Creek) National Council. Giles currently works at the Ah-Tah-Thi-Ki Museum on the Big Cypress Seminole Indian Reservation in Florida. Giles sees her responsibilities to Indigenous people and her community as an extension of her role as a mother and career woman. The symposium was webcast and recorded in the Rasumuson Theater of the National Museum of the American Indian on March 21, 2019.
Video Duration:
28 min 54 sec
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Native American Indian Museum Smithsonian "Indigenous Peoples" "Smithsonian Institution" "Smithsonian NMAI" "National Museum of the American Indian"
