...the passage of the VAWA earlier this year finally provides for tribal authorities to pursue non-tribal persons who've committed crimes on reservations. Prior to this, if I understand it right, non-tribal men who've raped a woman on a reservation and then left reservation were not targeted by any law enforcement agency since only tribal enforcement could act on crimes committed tribal land but had no authority once leaving the reservation.
A prime excuse for victimization has always been describing the victim as not a person. Nothing magic happened to any people when the 13th Amendment was passed. The law just caught up with reality. No one experienced any innate changes when the 19th Amendment was passed either. Again, the law caught up.
Until everyone is recognized as a full and equal person, injustice and crime will be biased towards women and minorities.
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