Domestic Violence In The Rez Sisters

Within the pages of The Round House, Louise Eldrich tackles the reality of justice for indigenous American populations, specifically how the main character, Joe, decides to take justice in his own hands after the legal system fails him and his mother in rectifying and recognizing her rape, committed by the hands of a racist white male, Linden. Eldrich’s novel, while fictional, is rooted in the experiences of native peoples. With the help of Sarah Deer, a deeper analysis concerning the day-to-day realities of real life Native Americans versus Eldrich’s fictional characters. This analysis will cover the institutional laws put in place by those that are not in the respective tribes of America, due to either coercion or federal intervention. The benefits, as well as drawbacks, of Joe’s eventual decision over the fate of Linden, will also be considered within the analysis. Also, the analysis will confront how Joe’s decision puts his community at risk as well as the interests of the reservation at risk. Particularly, in the lack of justice for sexual assault survivors, including the institutional and societal failings of survivors concerning their race and tribal affiliation. For this reason, Joe is led down the avenue of extra-law actions, ultimately ending in murder.

Stolen Sisters underlines the ongoing causes that indigenous women are facing in predominately non-indigenous communities. This report by Amnesty International specifically discusses the cases of two indigenous women, Helen Betty Osborne, abducted on November 12, 1971, and her cousin Felicia Solomon, abducted three decades later on March 25, 2003. This report brings our attention to the fact that neither of these cases were treated with dignity nor acted upon in a quick and professional matter. It states that the local police were aware of the white man in the area preying on specifically indigenous women, however the situation was treated with disrespect simply because they were not from a Caucasian decent.

Within the Entertainment Industry - theatre being a part of that - sexual assault and sexual harassment happens so often people hate to admit it. Regardless of gender, race, sexuality, religion, etc. sexual assault can happen to anyone. Thus, our piece will showcase both a male and female victim stressing that these issues can just as easily happen to a male as well; it goes beyond feminism. Throughout the piece the two victims will be reciting a monologue together and in parts displaying this sharing of a story and/or stories. There will be people who surround the victims acting as the perpetrators who will interact with the victims in the way society would. During the rehearsal process, we will be exploring levels physical touching, slapping,

In the book Monkey Beach by Eden Robinson, the main character, Lisamarie, has to go through a series of traumatic events. However, these events play a crucial role in understanding the message of the novel. First Nations communities are still struggling with the aftermath of residential schools. This has led to a loss of culture. Lisamarie faces the death of many family members, and sexual assault which help her get in touch with her supernatural side. However, because she has grown up in a Haisla family that doesn’t practice a lot of its culture, she doesn’t know how to accept that part of herself. Several members of Lisamarie’s family attended residential schools which forces her to face intergenerational trauma. The author uses traumatic events that revolve around first nations communities to make the reader aware of the struggles that still affect first nation cultures.

In Leanne Simpson’s short story “it takes an ocean not to break,” (“Islands of Decolonial Love” 2015), the author, through the continuing change of tone, paints a portrait of the depths of trauma that is persistent in indigenous society and one of its central issues, suicide. The “therapy-lady” is portrayed as the “other” when put into contact with Indigenous problems and her words come off as almost foreign to the speaker. She can be seen as an allegorical character that represents “white” ideology, or even our current government as a whole, who tries to help the Indigenous people but ultimately fails, not only due to lack of caring but in reality a lack of understanding.

Missing and Murdered Women and Girls has a huge impact on native women such as myself. It causes a lot of built up anger, distrust and pain. Hearing about the life of Helen Betty Osborne is devastating because just like all of us, she had goals and the drive to be prosperous in life. She had plans on succeeding, creating a family and help maintaining it. Unfortunately, her journey was ended due to the lack of awareness that should be out there. All aboriginal woman are subjected to sexism and racism one point in our lives and it seems that murdered and missing woman aren’t being fully focused on. This is a problem that needs to be addressed because there are underlying and systematic reasons that should be the discussed rather swept under

Wettersten et al. explain that income stability is a reason why many women stay in a violent relationship (448). They declare that many women who live in a violent home do not have control over finances. In addition, Wettersten et al. found that women who live in poor households tend to stay in violent relationship as well (448). Furthermore, Few discovered that religious women tend to stay in an abuse relationship because of what people would say about them separating from their abusive husband (494). She explains that for these women, the marriage is sacred, even if that means to put up with domestic violence. (494).

“I told my parents, or at least I complained about it to them. And they always said, ‘He’s younger than you; he can’t hurt you… you just bruise easily, so he’s not really hitting you that hard’” (McDonald & Martinez, 2016, p. 407) The response exhibited by these parents is not an uncommon response to sibling violence, which has often been chalked up as being a normal part of growing up. Sibling violence, however, is the most prominent type of intrafamilial abuse (Khan & Rogers, 2015; Button & Gealt, 2010). The purpose of this paper is to identify and explore a type of interpersonal violence, review screening and identifiers social workers should be aware of, and review the resource social workers could utilize when dealing with the identified interpersonal violence.

In America we have this somewhat naïve idea that a family is a completely safe haven where no evil can harm its members. Sadly, this idea is false and, in quite a few cases, the victims of domestic abuse go unnoticed and the programs designed to ease the pain are underfunded or forced to endure budget cuts. Such was the case in Kansas during the fall of 2011. The article in question proposes that families should be a private matter, a position that I vehemently disagree with. Families should be public institutions because, whether we choose to notice it or not, its members effect our day-to-day lives and other aspects of life, including education. Now, the issues of the family should still be dealt with internally, but the government should

After collecting and analyzing all the data during the duration of the experiment, the authors’ found that the best way to handle a domestic violence dispute, was to make an arrest. The arrestee then would be charged with battery touch or strike. Although during the period of time that the experiment was conducted many states were not granted the privilege to arrest on a domestic dispute without a warrant or without the victim stating he or she wants the offender arrested. Which goes to show that this experiment paved the way and showed the critical importance of state government authorizing police to make probable cause arrests in cases of domestic violence disputes. With that impact, many changes to policies erected allowing it to be possible

Today, we think that Canada could not possibly be still harboring some of the negative ramifications of colonization. In our color-blind state, many of us assume that all is right with the world, and that the wrongs of colonization have already been righted. However, this couldn't be further from the truth, especially for the women of the First Nations. These indigenous women have suffered sexual exploitation and oppression under colonialism, and have continued to suffer at the hands f their own people based on trends set during this violent and subjugated period.

Gender violence has focused on the patriarchal system of power, where an individual’s race put children and women at risk. The racist social attitudes that dehumanized Indigenous Women and children have permitted criminals to commit acts of violence and abuse. The social position of Indigenous Women became inferior and the sexual abuse and exploitation introduced diseases in epidemic proportions.

Kimora’s mother shared, “Kimora asked me for a lighter and I said no, so she doesn’t have a way to light stuff on fire.”

This documentary looks into the lives of three women who have experienced domestic violence. Each woman’s story is different but they all share an experience that will never fade away from their memory. Sabrina is shown first, badly beaten and bruised. Her boyfriend is taken into custody and she is left with the decision of pressing charges. This isn't the first time her boyfriend has abused but her injuries are so bad that something has to be done. With the help of a counselor Sabrina gets the courage to press charges but thats just the first step. Over the course of six months Sabrina has to consider all of her options for refuge and her safety. After about six months the court hearing takes place. She wasn’t expecting to have such strong feelings when she saw he abuser.

Aggression-behavior that is intended to harm another individual. Aggressive behavior can be words lash out in anger. Rumors about someone is another form of aggression. Children who are bullied sometimes act out with violence and sometimes tragic is the result, usually death. Especially when teenagers are involved. They keep teasing and spreading gossip that finally the individual just has had enough and doesn't think about the outcome of his or her actions. Even failure to act can be aggressive if that failure is intended to hurt someone such as not helping someone you know will be hurt by the outcome