Indigenous people are much more likely to experience violence than White Americans, statistics show.
, compared to 71% of White women, including higher rates of sexual violence, physical violence by their intimate partner, stalking or psychological aggression by their intimate partner. Indigenous men are also more likely to have been the victims of violence, with 81.6% of them being victims of violence some time in their lives, compared to 64% of White men.
But only 116 of those cases had been logged into the National Missing and Unidentified Persons System.“Native peoples have called this land home since time immemorial.
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