Rape. Murder. Injustice. Those evils created the necessity for the American Indian Movement, as in the case of "the serial killings of American Indian women in Minneapolis” in 1987.
1987 AIM PATROL: Minneapolis AIM Patrol comes full circle in restarting the Patrol to deal with the serial killings of American Indian women in Minneapolis" in 1987.
And one day before his passing, Carter Camp shared with us his direct experience with stopping Forced Sterilizations.
This is one of the issues I've worked on in my life that sincerly pissed me off. Dr. Connie Uri was a surgeon and AIM member who worked with us on several issues. In 1971 I organized Oklahoma AIM and we did organizing work around Claremore Indian Hospital in NE Oklahoma. In 1972 a group of Indian nurses there came to AIM and asked that we get involved in this case of forced sterilizations. We did and tried to help the nurses who knew what was going on but were fired when they asked questions. We kept running into walls and the nurses were being weeded out one by one. I should say IHS employees as some were not nurses but the nurses led them in this struggle. After some work it became obvious that we needed an expert on the inside so I called Connie and asked for her help. Connie came to Oklahoma and went to the hospital prentending she was going to move to Ok and was looking for work. Since she was a highly qualified surgeon and over qualified for the IHS they began to recruit her. In doing so they open their books to her to show her their workload etc. Connie spent a few days familiarizing herself with the place (and secretly copying the pertinent material) by the time she informed them she couldn't go to work there we had our evidence and Connie became our main witness! We won the cases and put a stop to the horrible bullshit going down. Along with the brave ndn nurses, Dr.Connie Uri was truly a hero in exposing one of the worst atrocities in IHS history.
But now there’s a “man who choked a Native woman to unconsciousness and then masturbated on her won’t have to serve a day in jail nor register as a sex offender.”
According to KTVA.com and a written criminal complaint by APD Detective Brett Sarber, the victim— a 25-year-old Native woman — told police Schneider picked her up at a gas station in Midtown Anchorage, drove to a remote location, and attacked her. Justin identified himself to the victim as ‘Dan’ and gave her a ride under the guise of going to Muldoon.
Instead of going to Muldoon, the driver drove to another area stating he had to load items into his car from another vehicle. He asked the victim for help, when she came to the rear of the vehicle, Schneider attacked her and strangled her in a front choke hold while telling her that he was going to kill her. When the victim woke up, Schneider was zipping up his pants and the victim was covered in ejaculate. Her then offered her a tissue.
It’s legal to rape Native American women in America.
A report found 94 per cent of Native American women living in Seattle say they have been raped or coerced into sex at least once in their lifetime.
The damning new report – from the Urban Indian Health Institute and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention – is believed to be one of the first to examine the experience of native women living in an urban environment instead of on reservations.
Seventy-one per cent of native people live in city settings – making the report’s findings particularly noteworthy.