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World Service,2 mins

Did violence towards indigenous women in the US start with colonisation?

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Kerri Colfer of the Tlingit Tribe of Alaska and a legal advocate who lobbies on Native American issues explains how colonisation and assimilation programmes aimed at integrating Native American communities with white settlers are at the root of the problems experienced by indigenous women today.

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