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Government Reports
Broken Promises: Continuing Federal Funding Shortfall for Native Americans, by the United States Commission on Civil Rights (December 2018)
2017 Indian Country Investigations and Prosecutions, by the U.S. Department of Justice
Human Trafficking: Information On Cases In Indian Country Or That Involved Native Americans (July 2017), by U.S. Government Accountability Office
Human Trafficking: Action Needed To Identify The Number Of Native American Victims Receiving Federally-Funded Services (April 2017), by U.S. Government Accountability Office
National Institute of Justice Research Report on Violence Against American Indian and Alaska Native Women and Men - 2010 Findings from the National Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence Survey (May 2016), by Andre B. Rosay, Ph.D.
Indian Country Investigations and Prosecutions 2016, by the U.S. Department of Justice
Federal Reports on Criminal Prosecutions in Indian Country, by the U.S. Department of Justice
Ending Violence So Children Can Thrive (November 2014), by The Attorney General’s Advisory Committee on American Indian and Alaska Native Children Exposed to Violence
A Roadmap for Making Native America Safer, A Report to the President and Congress of the United States (November 2013)
Vision 21: Transforming Victim Services (2013), by U.S. Department of Justice
Using Federal Law To Prosecute Domestic Violence Crimes in Indian Country, by U.S. Department of Justice
An Overview of the Bureau of Justice Assistance’s Tribal Civil and Criminal Legal Assistance Program and Resources (2013), by U.S. Department of Justice
VAWA 2013 and Tribal Jurisdiction Over Non-Indian Perpetrators of Domestic Violence Fact Sheet (2013), by U.S. Department of Justice
U.S. Department of Justice FY 2014 Budget Request (2013), by U.S. Department of Justice
Indian Country Accomplishments of the Justice Department 2009- Present (2013), by U.S. Department of Justice
Jails in Indian Country, 2012 (2013), by U.S. Department of Justice
Why Section 904 Of S. 47 Is Constitutional Under the Supreme Court’s Precedent In United States V. Lara, in the Congressional Record H737-39, (2013)
Key Primary Documents in the VAWA Reauthorization Fight, as originally posted on Turtle Talk Feb. 28, 2013
Indian Country Investigations and Prosecutions, 2011-2012 (2013), by U.S. Department of Justice
Tribal Crime Data Collection Activities, 2012 (2012), by U.S. Department of Justice
Crime-Reduction Best Practices Handbook, Making Indian Communities Safe 2012 (2012), by Bureau of Indian Affairs
Coordinated Tribal Assistance Solicitation (CTAS) Community Profiles Report (N=40) (2012), by U.S. Department of Justice
Compendium of Tribal Crime Data 2011 (2011), by U.S. Department of Justice
Indian Country Criminal Justice: Departments of Interior and Justice Should Strengthen Coordination to Support Tribal Courts (2011), by U.S. GAO
The National Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence Survey, 2010 Summary Report (2011), by the National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
U.S. Department of Justice Declinations of Indian Country Criminal Matters (2010), by U.S. GAO
A BJS Statistical Profile, 1992-2002: American Indians and Crime (2004), by U.S. Department of Justice
Full Report of the Prevalence, Incidence, and Consequences of Violence Against Women: Findings from the National Violence Against Women Survey (2000), by U.S. Department of Justice
Research Papers
Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls (2018), by the Urban Indian Health Institute
VAWA 2013’s Special Domestic Violence Criminal Jurisdiction Five-Year Report (March 2018), by the National Congress of American Indians
Legislative History of Section 905 of VAWA 2013 (April 27, 2015), Indian Law Resource Center
Considerations in Implementing VAWA’s Special Domestic Violence Criminal Jurisdiction and TLOA’s Enhanced Sentencing Authority: A Look at the Experience of the Pascua Yaqui Tribe (October 2014), by Alfred Urbina and Melissa Tatum
Back to Basics: Special Domestic Violence Jurisdiction in the Violence Against Women Reactivation Act of 2013 and the Expansion of Inherent Tribal Sovereignty (2013), by Laura C. Sayler
Frontier of Injustice: Alaska Native Victims of Domestic Violence (2012), by Laura S. Johnson
Embracing Tribal Sovereignty to Eliminate Criminal Jurisdiction Chaos (2012), by Lindsey Trainor Golden
Self-Determination and Self-Government: Using the UN Declaration to End Violence Against Native Women (2012) Paper submitted to UN Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples James Anaya by Indian Law Resource Center; National Congress of American Indians Task Force on Violence Against Women, National Indigenous Women’s Resource Center, Inc.; and Clan Star, Inc.
Tangled Up in Knots: How Continued Federal Jurisdiction over Sexual Predators on Indian Reservations Hobbles Effective Law Enforcement to the Detriment of Indian Women (2011), by Suzianne D. Painter-Thorne
Garden of Truth: The Prostitution and Trafficking of Native Women in Minnesota (2011), by Melissa Farley, Nicole Matthews, Sarah Deer, Guadalupe Lopez, Christine Stark, and Eileen Hudon
Shattered Hearts: The commercial sexual exploitation of American Indian women and girls in Minnesota (2009)
Addressing the Epidemic of Domestic Violence in Indian Country by Restoring Tribal Sovereignty (2009), by Matthew L. Fletcher
A Victim-Centered Approach to Domestic Violence Against Native Women: Resource guide for drafting or revising tribal laws against domestic violence (2008), by the Tribal Law and Policy Institute
Connecting the Dots Between the Constitution, the Marshall Trilogy, and United States v. Lara: Notes Toward a Blueprint for the Next Legislative Restoration of Tribal Sovereignty (2008), by Ann E. Tweedy
Maze of Injustice: The failure to protect Indigenous women from sexual violence in the USA (2007), by Amnesty International
Focus Group on Public Law 280 and the Sexual Assault of Native Women (2007), by the Tribal Law and Policy Institute
ILRC Reports
Violence Against American Indian and Alaska Native Women in the United States, a Briefing Paper for Thematic Hearing held during the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, 169th Period of Sessions (2018), by the Indian Law Resource Center, Alaska Native Women’s Resource Center, National Congress of American Indians, and National Indigenous Women’s Resource Center
Supplemental Briefing Paper on Petitioners’ Response to Questions Raised by Inter-American Commission on Human Rights during the Thematic Hearing on Violence against American Indian and Alaska Native Women in the United States (2019), by the Indian Law Resource Center, Alaska Native Women’s Resource Center, National Congress of American Indians, and National Indigenous Women’s Resource Center
The Inter-American Human Rights System: Combating Violence Against Native Women in the United States: A resource on advocacy efforts for indigenous women’s organizations seeeking to bring human rights claims to the international arena (November 2013), by the Indian Law Resource Center
Restoring Safety to Native Women and Girls and Strenghtening Native Nations: A Report on Tribal Capacity for Enhanced Sentencing and Restored Criminal Jurisdiction (Fall 2013), by the Indian Law Resource Center
News Articles
Why Aren’t Fossil Fuel Companies Held Accountable for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women?, Abaki Beck, Yes Magazine, September 2019.
In Indian Country, ‘A Maze of Injustice’ Persists for Women, Emma Cueto, Law360, September 2019.
Lawmakers can address the MMIW crisis. Will they?, Mary Kathryn Nagle, High Country News, June 2019.
Canada Reckons With Genocide, Justin Ling, Foreign Policy, June 2019.
Remarks by the President and Vice President at Signing of the Violence Against Women Act (March 2013), by The Office of the Press Secretary, The White House
Statement from the President on the House Passage of the Violence Against Women Act (February 2013), by The Office of the Press Secretary, The White House
House Passes Violence Against Women Act After GOP Version Defeated (February 2013), by Tom Cohen, CNN
Salazar, Washburn Commend Passage of Violence Against Women Act(2013), by U.S. Department of Interior
Congress Must Act On Violence Against Women(February 2013), by Editorial Board, The Washington Post
House Renews Violence Against Women Measure(February 2013), by Ashley Parker, The New York Times
Letter from the Dakotas: Tiny Little Laws: A plague of sexual violence in Indian country (February 2011), by K. Dobie, Harper’s Magazine
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