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Violence Against Women and the Extraction Industry
Since the oil boom, Native communities have reported increased rates of human trafficking, sex trafficking, and missing and murdered Indigenous women in their communities.[5] Workers who come to a region for well-paid oil and gas jobs often set up man camps.[6] Placed in largely rural areas these camps strain infrastructures in communities that already have inadequate resources to support population booms.[7] In 2015, violent crime reports increased in the Bakken oil-producing region of Montana and North Dakota, due to the socio-economic changes brought to the area with the oil boom.[8] According to one report, sexual assaults on women on the Fort Berthold reservation increased by 75%.[9] Conversely, there was no corresponding rise of violent crimes in the counties outside of the Bakken oil region. In fact, the overall crime rate decreased during this time.[10] Overall, the potential for harm from man camps is exacerbated when they are on or near Indigenous peoples lands.[11]
The risks of oil development on Native reservations are distinct from development in other areas of the USA, as federal Indian law requires a jurisdictional analysis that focuses on the identity of the perpetrator and the land status of the location where the crime occurred to determine which governmental body is responsible for arrest, detention and prosecution.[12] Complicating issues further is the nature of colonization and the societal exploitation of Native women and children that stems from it. Such legal and historical treatment of Indigenous people has contributed to the increased risk of sex trafficking of Native women and children.[13] Studies demonstrate that generational and historical trauma along with high incidences of poverty, depression, homelessness, and substance abuse in Native communities can make Indigenous women and children vulnerable to trafficking.[14]
https://lawblogs.uc.edu/ihrlr/2021/05/28/pipeline-of-violence-the-oil-industry-and-missing-and-murdered-indigenous-women/
Now, lets give some energy to this ongoing horror.
MineralMan
(146,284 posts)LeftInTX
(25,224 posts)I also did not connect the dots between oil camps and violence against indigenous women until this article.
Very informative.
Thank you for your post
iscooterliberally
(2,860 posts)I don't think it was based on a true story, but then again maybe it was. It was a really good movie in any case.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wind_River_(film)
LeftInTX
(25,224 posts)It says, "Inspired by actual events", so it wasn't based on a specific true story, but maybe is a compilation of actual events into one?
iscooterliberally
(2,860 posts)I don't want to say too much more and spoil the movie for you. It was very well made.
Irish_Dem
(46,880 posts)Irish_Dem
(46,880 posts)Edited this post so not to spoil the ending.
Great script, casting, acting.
IronLionZion
(45,411 posts)it's a fictional movie made to raise awareness of real events happening all over the place to indigenous women. Ironically it's from the Weinstein company.
Walleye
(31,002 posts)Irish_Dem
(46,880 posts)Exactly men would fight back.
2naSalit
(86,515 posts)In Indian country, it's the rest of the country that needs to know about it so that something will be done about it. That task force was created over a year ago and still nothing is happening, there's little support for its mission outside of this region.
LeftInTX
(25,224 posts)2naSalit
(86,515 posts)And for those who have no clue should, if they can stomach it, watch that movie Wind River. It shows how the oil workers have no respect for anything and certainly not women and it's far worse when it comes to indigenous women.
Needs to be front page news rather than some well off white girl. Not that her case isn't important but too many are not reported on and so many just disappear while their families are left not knowing what became of their loved one.
jaxexpat
(6,815 posts)If law's first problem is jurisdictionalism I wouldn't count on justice too soon.
malaise
(268,885 posts)Rec
Irish_Dem
(46,880 posts)Let's see how brave the men are then.
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)Good idea. This makes me absolutely sick. I am so tired of hearing about all the horrible, evil, violent thing men do to women just because they can.
Irish_Dem
(46,880 posts)I know, this planet is not safe for women and children.
Earth is a failed planet.
hoosierspud
(148 posts)This is a great book about Lissa Yellow Bird who was featured on an episode of This American Life. She searched for her niece on that program and in the book one of her female cousins went missing. The book also gives a great description of the reservation and the oil extraction business there.
ismnotwasm
(41,975 posts)I was afraid of getting very few.