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	1 in 3 Indian women suffers rape

sherrymac

4-27-2007 9:03 AM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/f898d7e5-7ee6-4cde-be02-a5ca8e5f34c5/9A830E03-3AE5-47E1-AD7F-E3B806606CD4/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/04/27/MNGCGPGKDI1.DTL&feed=rss.news" href="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/04/27/MNGCGPGKDI1.DTL&feed=rss.news" style="font-size: 11px;">www.sfgate.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/04/27/MNGCGPGKDI1.DTL&feed=rss.news"><P>One in 3 American Indian women will be raped at some point in their lives, 
a rate that is more than double that for non-Indian women, according to a new 
report by Amnesty International. 
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from Sexual Violence in the USA," noted a variety of reasons that rape is so 
prevalent on reservations, according to its authors. 
</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/04/27/MNGCGPGKDI1.DTL&feed=rss.news"><P>In 1978, the Supreme Court ruled in Oliphant vs. the Suquamish Indian 
Tribe that tribal governments have no criminal jurisdiction over non-Indians. 
When a crime is committed, tribal police and their non-Indian counterparts must 
hash out whether the suspect is Indian or not. 
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