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2. Prostitution on Native American Reservations in North America

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   Traffickers also began to see the large market that these camps provided and an incentive to lure Native women off of reservations and into the sex market to be sold to these men for profit. [3] This pattern of sexual violence and sex trafficking of Native women and girls disrupted the entire dynamic of these reservations.

3. Mail-order bride - Wikipedia

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   In 1620, the Virginia Company recruited mail-order brides for the Jamestown colony, sponsoring the emigration of 140 women in hopes of reducing desertion by the settlers and to avoid the men marrying women from the local Native American tribes. They were sometimes referred to as "tobacco wives", because each male colonist who married a mail ...

4. Gender roles among the Indigenous peoples of North America

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   Typically, women gather vegetation such as fruits, roots, and seeds. Women would often prepare the food. Men would use weapons and tools to hunt animals such as buffalos. [3] It would not be expected women to participate in hunting, [4] but their roles as mothers is important.

5. 25 Famous Native Americans to Know, From Actors to ... - AOL

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   Sharice Davids was one of the first Native American women elected to Congress, not to mention the first openly LGBTQ+ Native American woman to fill the role. A member of the Ho-Chunk nation, the ...

6. Native American women see high rates of violence. Here's how ...

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   Officials on Friday said nearly 85% of Indigenous women suffer violence. A new Michigan task force hopes to tackle that problem.

7. Racism against Native Americans in the United States

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   Native American and First Nations women, meanwhile, are frequently sexually objectified and are often stereotyped as being promiscuous. [42] Such misconceptions lead to murder, rape, and violence against Native American or First Nations people by non-Natives. [43]