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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 – 1 Welcome and Opening Remarks
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, Elizabeth Gische, Symposium Manager at the National Museum of the American Indian, welcomes the symposium audience and speakers. Then Sari Horowitz, symposium moderator and reporter for the Washington Post, offers some opening remarks. Then Representative Deb Haaland (Laugna Pueblo) of New Mexico and one of the first Native women elected to the U.S. Congress, provides a video commentary on the issue and welcomes symposium participants. Sari Horwitz (symposium moderator) is a three-time Pulitzer prize-winning Washington Post reporter and author of the Post’s award-winning 2014 series “Justice in Indian Country.” Horwitz traveled to an Indian reservation in Minnesota to interview a Native American woman who had been sexually assaulted, as had her mother and daughter. In each case, the assailants, who were not Native American, were not prosecuted due to loopholes in the laws on jurisdiction of criminal prosecution on Indian reservations. Horwitz set off on a year-long investigation across the country, into remote villages and tribal lands where she uncovered how the legal system in Indian country fails some of America’s most vulnerable citizens—and what is being done to rectify an ongoing tragedy. The symposium was webcast and recorded in the Rasumuson Theater of the National Museum of the American Indian on March 21, 2019.
Video Duration:
8 min 49 sec
YouTube Keywords:
Native American Indian Museum Smithsonian "Indigenous Peoples" "Smithsonian Institution" "Smithsonian NMAI" "National Museum of the American Indian"
