Article On Trafficking at MHA Nation (Three Affiliated Tribes)

Here.

With no anti-trafficking law of their own to deal with the crime and all signs pointing to a crisis, a group of tribal women snapped into action to work on a legislative solution. “No one said, ‘Here is the course on dealing with trafficking, and this is how you’re going to execute it,’ ” Young Bird says. “We’ve had to teach ourselves.”

“We all came together,” adds Cummings, “pulled what we could to the table, rolled up our sleeves, and got down and dirty with the whole situation.”

As an aside–there should be a collection of all the times someone writes something along the lines of “a small group of Native women made a massive difference in the face of collective indifference and ignorance.”

HT to a lot of Facebook friends who shared this.

Report on Sex Trafficking of Indian Women and Girls in Minnesota

Devastating.

Here is the report from the Minnesota American Indian Women’s Resource Center, titled, “Shattered Hearts: The Commercial Sexual Exploitation of American Indian Women and Girls in Minnesota.”

Via Feminist Law Blog, and here and here and here.