reedak
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1. This thesis explores the marginalization of American Indian women, specifically in mainstream media and social movements. From 1970 to 1980 it is estimated that at least 25% of indigenous women between the ages of 15 to 44 were sterilized, with some speculating the number to be as high as 50%. American Indian women were not the only targets of sterilization abuse; African American women and Latina women also had similar experiences. The public was more aware of these women’s experiences than those of American Indian women because the mainstream media was more likely to cover the involuntary procedures of women of color who initiated lawsuits, a strategy which very few American Indian chose to pursue.
The American Indian Movement (AIM) discovered the involuntary sterilization of American Indian women in records they removed after occupying the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) in 1972. It would take nearly two years for information on the sterilization of American Indian women to be made public in 1974 by the Akwesasne Notes, a newspaper published by the Mohawk Nation. Mainstream media, such as the New York Times and the Washington Post, would take another two years to publish an article on the matter in 1976. Their articles appeared after the General Accounting Office (GAO) released a report investigating allegations against the IHS. The report revealed that 3,406 sterilization procedures were performed on American Indian females between the ages of 15 to 44 in the Aberdeen, Albuquerque, Oklahoma City, and Phoenix areas alone from 1973 to 1976.
American Indian women’s issues were clearly present but insufficiently recognized not only in news coverage, but also in the American Indian and feminist social movements’ agendas.....
Source: https://digitalworks.union.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1795&context=theses
2. It hurt my eyes and soul when I saw the news of forced sterilizations of migrant women conducted by the U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE). We learned about this thanks to Dawn Wooten, a brave Black nurse working at an ICE facility in Georgia who recently filed a whistleblower complaint reporting horrendous medical practices against immigrants.
This is not the first, second or even third time that Black, Brown, poor, Indigenous and incarcerated people have been subject to unethical, invasive medical procedures without their explicit consent. The United States has a long history of forced medical procedures and experimentations on people of color and persons with physical and mental disabilities based on eugenics, a collection of pseudo-scientific ideas about the supposed physical and moral strengths and weaknesses inherent in a person’s race or ethnic origin.
As repulsive as these sound today and as much as they may evoke the monstrous human experiments conducted by the Third Reich, these ideas and practices were inspired by and embedded in mainstream scientists and scientific societies in the early 20th century in the United States. A cornerstone of such ideas was and still is codified in population control programs via forced sterilization of women and men....
Source: https://blog.ucsusa.org/paula-garcia/ices-forced-sterilizations-are-a-crime-against-humanity/
3. The relationship between the United States and Indigenous populations has been built on broken promises for the theft of Native land, culture, and identity. Treaty-making practices and governmental policies have forced this inequitable relationship, which has resulted in sanctioned ethnic cleansing and cultural genocide.
The operation of Indian boarding schools remains one of the core intergenerational atrocities that continues to impact Indigenous communities, families, and individuals to this day. Alongside the government, religious institutions remain in control of these schools and many within these entities are guilty of abusing Indigenous children.
These Indian boarding schools were not academic institutions, but instead militarized, labor-intensive concentration camps, established to eradicate all vestiges of Indian culture, nothing more than ethnic cleansing hidden under the disguise of doing “good” for the American people.
In these institutions, Native children were taught that the genocide of their people was a benefit to them, and the only other option to assimilation into the predominant white culture was death and damnation......
Source: https://indiancountrytoday.com/opin...chools-are-a-continuing-crisis-of-colonialism
4. ....Indigenous women in the US experience some of the highest rates of sexual assault in the country. According to the US Department of Justice, nearly half of all Native American women have been raped, beaten, or stalked by an intimate partner; one in three will be raped in their lifetime; and on some reservations, women are murdered at a rate 10 times higher than the national average....
The reauthorised act seeks to address part of the crisis by extending tribal jurisdiction over non-Native Americans who commit crimes of domestic violence or sexual assault against a Native American spouse or partner. Tribal governments in the US currently do not have jurisdiction over non-Native Americans who commit crimes on their land.
According to the Department of Justice, 86 percent of rapes and sexual assaults against Native American women are committed by non-Native American men....
Source: https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2013/3/6/sexual-violence-scars-native-american-women
5. Perhaps, "US political saints and sages" such as Poor Little Rich Boy Marco, Tom Cotton Brain, Jeff Merkley and James McGovern are naive and ignorant enough to believe their country is really a paradise on earth for all women of the human race. Now they should sponsor a series of bills to protect indigenous and other minority women from rape and forced sterilizations.
Meanwhile the Chinese government should form a "National Congressional-Executive Commission on America" to call on UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet to probe US ongoing genocide and rights abuses against Red Indians and other minority groups.
It should also urge the United Nations’ human rights office to release its assessment of America’s policies in the so-called Indian Nations before the self-declared "Messiah" "huge mushroom head" ex-president could make his political comeback in 2024.
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The American Indian Movement (AIM) discovered the involuntary sterilization of American Indian women in records they removed after occupying the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) in 1972. It would take nearly two years for information on the sterilization of American Indian women to be made public in 1974 by the Akwesasne Notes, a newspaper published by the Mohawk Nation. Mainstream media, such as the New York Times and the Washington Post, would take another two years to publish an article on the matter in 1976. Their articles appeared after the General Accounting Office (GAO) released a report investigating allegations against the IHS. The report revealed that 3,406 sterilization procedures were performed on American Indian females between the ages of 15 to 44 in the Aberdeen, Albuquerque, Oklahoma City, and Phoenix areas alone from 1973 to 1976.
American Indian women’s issues were clearly present but insufficiently recognized not only in news coverage, but also in the American Indian and feminist social movements’ agendas.....
Source: https://digitalworks.union.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1795&context=theses
2. It hurt my eyes and soul when I saw the news of forced sterilizations of migrant women conducted by the U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE). We learned about this thanks to Dawn Wooten, a brave Black nurse working at an ICE facility in Georgia who recently filed a whistleblower complaint reporting horrendous medical practices against immigrants.
This is not the first, second or even third time that Black, Brown, poor, Indigenous and incarcerated people have been subject to unethical, invasive medical procedures without their explicit consent. The United States has a long history of forced medical procedures and experimentations on people of color and persons with physical and mental disabilities based on eugenics, a collection of pseudo-scientific ideas about the supposed physical and moral strengths and weaknesses inherent in a person’s race or ethnic origin.
As repulsive as these sound today and as much as they may evoke the monstrous human experiments conducted by the Third Reich, these ideas and practices were inspired by and embedded in mainstream scientists and scientific societies in the early 20th century in the United States. A cornerstone of such ideas was and still is codified in population control programs via forced sterilization of women and men....
Source: https://blog.ucsusa.org/paula-garcia/ices-forced-sterilizations-are-a-crime-against-humanity/
3. The relationship between the United States and Indigenous populations has been built on broken promises for the theft of Native land, culture, and identity. Treaty-making practices and governmental policies have forced this inequitable relationship, which has resulted in sanctioned ethnic cleansing and cultural genocide.
The operation of Indian boarding schools remains one of the core intergenerational atrocities that continues to impact Indigenous communities, families, and individuals to this day. Alongside the government, religious institutions remain in control of these schools and many within these entities are guilty of abusing Indigenous children.
These Indian boarding schools were not academic institutions, but instead militarized, labor-intensive concentration camps, established to eradicate all vestiges of Indian culture, nothing more than ethnic cleansing hidden under the disguise of doing “good” for the American people.
In these institutions, Native children were taught that the genocide of their people was a benefit to them, and the only other option to assimilation into the predominant white culture was death and damnation......
Source: https://indiancountrytoday.com/opin...chools-are-a-continuing-crisis-of-colonialism
4. ....Indigenous women in the US experience some of the highest rates of sexual assault in the country. According to the US Department of Justice, nearly half of all Native American women have been raped, beaten, or stalked by an intimate partner; one in three will be raped in their lifetime; and on some reservations, women are murdered at a rate 10 times higher than the national average....
The reauthorised act seeks to address part of the crisis by extending tribal jurisdiction over non-Native Americans who commit crimes of domestic violence or sexual assault against a Native American spouse or partner. Tribal governments in the US currently do not have jurisdiction over non-Native Americans who commit crimes on their land.
According to the Department of Justice, 86 percent of rapes and sexual assaults against Native American women are committed by non-Native American men....
Source: https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2013/3/6/sexual-violence-scars-native-american-women
5. Perhaps, "US political saints and sages" such as Poor Little Rich Boy Marco, Tom Cotton Brain, Jeff Merkley and James McGovern are naive and ignorant enough to believe their country is really a paradise on earth for all women of the human race. Now they should sponsor a series of bills to protect indigenous and other minority women from rape and forced sterilizations.
Meanwhile the Chinese government should form a "National Congressional-Executive Commission on America" to call on UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet to probe US ongoing genocide and rights abuses against Red Indians and other minority groups.
It should also urge the United Nations’ human rights office to release its assessment of America’s policies in the so-called Indian Nations before the self-declared "Messiah" "huge mushroom head" ex-president could make his political comeback in 2024.
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