We Survive without Justice:
Sexual Assault Response and Indigenous Women By Mother Nation
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he 1956 Indian Relocation Act sought to eliminate reservations, remove Native people from tribal lands and force assimilation into urban areas. Tribal citizens were relocated to cities, severing Native people from the political protections, teachings and practices, family and social relationships and all the power and possibility of living in Indigenous 3
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communities. In cities like Seattle, Cleveland, Chicago and Denver, where relocation offices were established, escalating rates of sexual violence, murdered and missing Indigenous women, trafficking, homelessness and addiction among Native people can be traced back to the removal and relocation practices of this Act.
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