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Rape and the reservation: a legal maze allows sexual predators to attack American Indian women with impunity.(FEATURE)
AUTUMN GERTZ, a resident of the Standing Rock Sioux reservation in South Dakota, didn't think of it as rape when she was forced to have sex against her will by her former boyfriend. Rape was rarely discussed openly in the community and even more rarely prosecuted, even though sexual assaults on the reservation were common.
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When she decided to leave the abusive relationship, she got no support from tribal authorities. "On our reservation, we don't have much help for that," she said. "I called the police once when he hit me, and they didn't arrest him or anything. They let him go."
When Gertz, now 27, was raped again, this ...
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