I recently read a letter someone wrote about how native women on reservations who are raped by non-natives have no legal recourse. Even though I spent a year and a half researching just how much First Nations in America have been forced to suffer, I wondered how frequently non-natives would really go to reservations and prey on women. Then I read this, actually in The New York Times, and remembered how easy it is to forget the plight of the oppressed when you are categorically an oppresser (even if it isn’t voluntary). Since the government almost completely refuses to honor treaties, respect sovereign nations, AND refuses to allow Nations to protect themselves against outsiders…maybe we need to form an anti-rape militia. That’s right Homeland Security, I said militia. It was their “homeland” first.
