Sharing Our Stories of Survival: Native Women Surviving Violence (63 page)

adoption

advocacy: general; personal experiences with

Alaska Native people

Alaska Native villages: Allakaket; Hydaburg; Perryville; Sitka; Venetie

Alaska Native Women’s Coalition

alcohol/alcoholism. See drug/alcohol abuse

Allen, Paula Gunn

allotment. See General Allotment Act

American Probation and Parole Association

Anchorage, Alaska

Apache Tribe of Oklahoma

Arizona

Artichoker, Karen

assimilation

Assimilative Crimes Act

Attla, Catherine

Awiakta, Marilou

banishment

Battered Women’s Justice Project

bisexual. See two-spirited

Black Bear, Tillie

Black Elk

boarding schools

Broken Leg-LaPointe, Adeline Stella

Bureau of Indian Affairs

Bureau of Justice Statistics

California

Cangleska, Inc.

Carlisle Indian Industrial School. See also boarding schools

ceremonies

CFR courts

Chickasaw Nation

children

child sexual abuse: general; personal experiences with

Choctaw Nation

Clairmont, Jim

Clan Star, Inc.

colonization

confidentiality

coordinated community response (CPR)

Court of Indian Offenses. See CFR courts

Crow Dog

customary law

Deer, Sarah

Deloria, Vine, Jr.

divorce

domestic violence: general; myths about; personal experiences with

double jeopardy

drug/alcohol abuse

due process

elders

emergency contraception

Federal Indian Law: general. See also General Allotment Act, Indian Child Welfare Act, Indian Civil Rights Act, Major Crimes Act, Public Law 83-280, United States Supreme Court decisions

Fienup-Riordan, Ann

firearms

full faith and credit. See also protection orders

gay. See two-spirited

General Allotment Act

General Crimes Act

Grand Portage Band of Ojibwe

guns. See firearms

Hall, Tex

Harring, Sidney L.

healers, traditional

Henry, Terri L.

Ho-Chunk Nation

Hopi Tribe

incarceration

Indian Child Welfare Act

Indian Civil Rights Act

Indian Country, federal definition

Indian Country Crimes Act. See General Crimes Act

Indian Health Service

Iroquois Confederacy

Jackson, Moana

jail. See incarceration

Johnnie, Jessie

Jones, Eliza

jurisdiction: gaps in; general

Kansas

Ladiga, Sally

LaDuke, Winona

law enforcement

lesbian. See two-spirited

lethality

“The Long Walk,” (Navajo)

Majel-Dixon, Juana

Major Crimes Act

Mankiller, Wilma

Mann, Henrietta

medicine man/woman. See healers

Mending the Sacred Hoop

Minnesota

Mousseau, Marlin

Multigenerational Trauma Cycle

National Coalition Against Domestic Violence

National Congress of American Indians

Office on Violence Against Women

Oglala Sioux Tribe

order of protection.
See
protection orders

Osage Nation

Parental Kidnapping Prevention Act (PKPA)

Pratt, Col. Richard

probation

protection orders

Public Law

racism

relocation

Ross, Gayle

Ross, Luana

Sacred Circle

sexually transmitted diseases

sexual violence: general; myths about; personal experiences with; in prison.
See also
child sexual abuse

shelters

slavery

Smith, Andrea

Smith, Tuhiwani

social change

South Dakota

South Dakota Coalition Against Domestic Violence

stalking

Starr, Arigon

statistics

sterilization, forced

Strong Hearts of the Circle

suicide/suicide attempts

traditional law. See customary law

“The Trail of Tears,”

treaties

trust responsibility

two-spirited

United States Supreme Court decisions:
Alaska v. Native Village of Venetie
;
Cherokee Nation v. Georgia
;
Johnson v
.
McIntosh
;
Mississippi Band v. Holyfield
;
Oliphant
v.
Suquamish
;
United States v. Lara

urban Native women

Violence Against Women Act; Safety for Indian Women Title (VAWA III)

Ward, Nancy

Washington

White Buffalo Calf Woman

White Buffalo Calf Woman Society, Inc.

Williams, Effie

Wilson, Shawn

Wounded Knee massacre

Zuni, Christine

About the Advisory Board

Genne James,
Navajo, is an enrolled member of the Navajo Nation and has worked in the area of domestic violence for over fifteen years. She is board member of Monero Mustangs, a nonprofit committed to protecting and preserving the wild mustangs of northern New Mexico.

Tina Olson,
Yaqui, has worked on issues surrounding domestic violence for over twenty years. As project coordinator for Mending the Sacred Hoop TA Project she has organized such domestic violence trainings as Law Enforcement, Building a Coordinated Response, Creating a Process of Change for Men Who Batter, Regional Trainings, Sexual Assault Response for Advocacy, and In Our Best Interest. She has taken various roles in the work to end violence in the Duluth, Minnesota, community, working as a women’s advocate and men’s group facilitator, as well as aiding in the development of Mending the Sacred Hoop’s coordinated response in Carlton and St. Louis counties in northeastern Minnesota that began in 1990. Tina is currently the board chair for Women in Construction, an Economic Justice Project developed to provide livable wages to women by training low-income women to work in the construction trades. Tina is the proud mother of four daughters who are all working in helping field careers, law, social work, nursing, and law enforcement. She is also grandmother of four grandchildren. Tina lives in Duluth, Minnesota, with her partner of thirty years, Paul Olson.

Mary L. Pearson,
Muscogee Creek descendant, has been a tribal judge since 1989 and has been admitted to the Oregon, Idaho, and Washington bars. Mary has served as chief judge for Coeur d’Alene Tribe since February 2004 and court administrator since March 2006. She has assisted in training court personnel in how to hear, try, and advocate and assisted in developing domestic violence materials since 1998. Mary has three grown children, six grandchildren, and two great-grandchildren.

Beryl Rock
, Minnesota Chippewa Tribe, enrolled at Leech Lake Indian Reservation, is the mother of three, grandmother of five. She recently graduated with a B.S. in social work from the College of St. Scholastica.

Rose Mary Shaw
, Osage Indian from Pawhuska, Oklahoma, currently serves on the Oklahoma Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Board. She is the first person of color to be appointed to this state governing board. She has served on numerous national and state advisory boards for victim assistance agencies and co-founded the first Indian tribal domestic violence and sexual assault coalition in Oklahoma. She graduated from Northeastern State University of Oklahoma with her B.S.W and continued at Washington University at St. Louis for her M.S.W. She currently holds a license for social work with a clinical specialty. She currently is the director of the Osage Nation counseling center, which oversees the chemical dependency, mental health, and domestic violence programs for the Osage Tribe of Indians.

Rebecca St. George
, Anishinaabe, is the mother of a young son and a young daughter. She is also an auntie, a niece, a daughter, a sister, a cousin, and a granddaughter. Rebecca has been working to address violence against Native women since 1993. She has volunteered at a battered women’s shelter, facilitated batterers’ reeducation groups, volunteered with the sexual assault crisis line in Duluth, Minnesota, and works with Mending the Sacred Hoop, both in the area of technical assistance and, currently, as an advocate for Native women in Duluth and the surrounding areas.

Tammy M. Young
, Chookaneidi Clan, Tlingit, has been a co-director of the Alaska Native Women’s Coalition since it was born in 2001. It is a nonprofit, nongovernmental agency dedicated to working with families affected by violence in rural Alaska. She is a founding mother of a new shelter in interior Alaska called Our Grandmother’s House. Tammy also is a faculty member of Clan Star, Inc., providing technical assistance to the Tribal Coalitions across the country as the mentoring director. She lives in her father, John A. Young Jr.’s, home village of Sitka. Her mother, Jessie Johnnie, is from Hoonah, Alaska, but resides now in Sitka. Jessie has been the guiding force in Tammy’s life, raising her to follow her maternal traditions. Tammy was born to the Chookaneidi, the Brown Bear clan. Her children James (thirty; recently married to Pamela (Howard), also thirty) and Heather (twenty-six) also reside in Sitka, and Stormy (twenty) resides in Anchorage with her newborn son Tristen. Advocacy for women and children has been a lifelong pursuit, while paying attention to elders and the stories.