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2019-03-23T17:44:00.000Z
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Video Title:
Safety for Our Sisters: Ending Violence Against Native Women – 2 Sarah Deer
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, Sarah Deer, University of Kansas, speaks on "Historical Resilience: The Story of Violence Against Native Women." Sarah Deer, a citizen of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation, is a lawyer, scholar, and author. Deer is a professor of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at the University of Kansas. She is also the chief justice for the Prairie Island Indian Community Court of Appeals. She has worked to end violence against women for more than 25 years and was named a MacArthur Fellow in 2014. Deer has documented the historical and ideological underpinnings of the failure to adequately protect victims of physical and sexual abuse in Indian Country and has developed policies and legislation that empower tribal nations to protect Native women from this pervasive abuse. Her latest book is The Beginning and End of Rape: Confronting Sexual Violence in Native America (2015). 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 21 sec
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