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Native American women twice as likely to be raped

One in three American Indian women have been raped or have experienced an attempted rape,” according to a Justice Department statistic cited in the NYT. The rate of sexual assault among indigenous American women “is more than twice the national average,” and it’s particular grim in “Alaska’s isolated villages, where there are no roads in or out, and where people are further cut off by undependable telephone, electrical and Internet service.”

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