What's the Problem?
All over the world, natives in countries are being harmed and disrespected by their government, their fellow countrymen, and the rest of the world. Forced from their homes, resources destroyed, and their rights as humans stripped from them, indigenous people are a dying race. As violence and governmental interventions increase. So many are living in poverty due to not being recognized as citizens who need resources that have been taken from them. Children are being ripped from their parents and thrown into camps installed by their government. Natives participating in peaceful protest are threatened and brutally attacked, some even killed. What can they do when even peaceful efforts are met with violent actions? Some tribes even face extinction of their people and their culture. The lands that many groups of indigenous people have lived on for hundreds of years have large deposits of valuable minerals. Once this is discovered, the people are uprooted from their ancestral lands and sent to live in slums. Some groups are simply targets because they are defiant to the government. Because they won't meld into the rest of the people in the country and adapt their ways, while simultaneously losing their old traditions, they are persecuted and attacked endlessly. Many do not understand the indigenous people because they live far from the public eye and away from the industrial world, but they are there, but they won't be forever. People have to start taking a stand for these people and make the effort to educate themselves about them or the traditions from hundreds of years ago will be lost, and so many will have died.
Even Here Near the United States.....
It is estimated that 370 million individuals worldwide are Indigenous People.
Information gathered by the US Department of Justice indicates that Native American and Alaska Native women are more than 2.5 times more likely to be raped or sexually assaulted than women in the USA,a fact that many do not realize.
A US Department of Justice study on violence against women concluded that more than one in three of American Indian and Alaska Native women will be raped during their lifetime; the comparable figure for the USA as a whole is less than one in five. The disrespect isn't just on the other side of the world, it is in the Us and around it.
Information gathered by the US Department of Justice indicates that Native American and Alaska Native women are more than 2.5 times more likely to be raped or sexually assaulted than women in the USA,a fact that many do not realize.
A US Department of Justice study on violence against women concluded that more than one in three of American Indian and Alaska Native women will be raped during their lifetime; the comparable figure for the USA as a whole is less than one in five. The disrespect isn't just on the other side of the world, it is in the Us and around it.