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F22 Gender-Based Violence and American Indian and Alaska Native Communities

Total Credits: 1 including 1 Category II CEs

Categories:
200 Adults, Couples & Families |  Special Offers |  700 Professional Growth & Development
Instructors:
Katie Schultz, Ph.D. |  Emily M. Wright, Ph.D. |  Tara N. Richards, Ph.D. |  Sheena L. Gilbert |  Catherine E. McKinley, Ph.D. |  Andre Rosay, Ph.D.
Course Levels:
Intermediate
Duration:
1 Hour 15 Minutes
Dates

Description

Presentation 1 – Dr. Emily M. Wright, Dr. Tara N. Richards, and Sheena Gilbert: This NIJ-funded project, used a mixed methods research design to understand the scope and context of missing Native American person cases in Nebraska. This presentation will describe the goals of the project, the methodology, and the quantitative results of the study. The scope and profile of missing Native American missing person cases in 2020 in Nebraska will be described.

Presentation 2 – Dr. Catherine McKinley: Inequities are prevalent for women and non-binary peoples across all ethnic identities but are persistently and disproportionately worse for Indigenous peoples. Gender and racial based inequities span from the home life to Indigenous women’s wellness—including physical, mental, and social health. The conundrum of how and why Indigenous women –many of whom historically held respected and even held sacred status in many matrilineal and female-centered communities – now experience the highest rates of gendered based violence is focal to this work. Unlike Western European and colonial contexts, Indigenous societies tended to be organized in fundamentally distinct ways that were woman-centered and where gender roles and values were reportedly more egalitarian, fluid, flexible, inclusive, complementary, and harmonious. Using the Indigenist framework of historical oppression, resilience, and transcendence (FHORT) this presentation takes a research-based approach linking historical oppression, gender-based inequities, and violence against Indigenous women and understanding of how patriarchal colonialism undermines all genders.

Presentation 3 – Dr. Andre B. Rosay: This presentation provides estimates from a national large-scale survey of violence against women and men who identified themselves as American Indian or Alaska Native. The survey was conducted in 2010 and used detailed behaviorally specific questions on psychological aggression, coercive control and entrapment, physical violence, stalking, and sexual violence. The results raised our awareness and understanding of violence experienced by American Indian and Alaska Native people.

Handouts

Dr. Andre B. Rosay Slides (423.2 KB) Available after Purchase

Instructor

Katie Schultz, Ph.D. Related Seminars and Products

Dr. Katie Schultz (PhD, MSW, Citizen of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma) is an Assistant Professor of Social Work at the University of Michigan. Her research focuses primarily on responding to violence and associated outcomes and understanding community and cultural connectedness in American Indian and Alaska Native communities. Current studies include one focused on risk and protective factors related to justice-involvement among a Native population and another investigating social networks and associations with substance use, violence, and suicide among American Indian adolescents. 

Emily M. Wright, Ph.D. Related Seminars and Products

Dr. Emily M. Wright is an Assistant Vice Chancellor for Research and Creative Activity and Professor in the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice at the University of Nebraska, Omaha. She is also a member of the Cherokee Nation and serves on the U.S. Department of Justice Task Force on Research on Violence Against American Indian and Alaska Native Women. Her research focuses on violence against women and children, particularly those in marginalized populations. She has published over 90 articles, chapters and reports on the topic, and has received funding from the National Institute of Justice and the National Institutes of Health to conduct research. Her recent research is featured in Child Abuse & Neglect, Journal of Interpersonal Violence, and Trauma, Violence, & Abuse.  

Tara N. Richards, Ph.D. Related Seminars and Products

Dr. Tara N. Richards is a Distinguished Associate Professor in the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice at the University of Nebraska Omaha (UNO) and a Faculty Lead for UNO’s Victimology and Victim Studies Research Lab. Her research focuses on prevention, intervention, and system response to sexual assault, intimate partner violence, child abuse and neglect. Her recent research is featured in Child Abuse & Neglect, Psychology of Violence, and Criminology and Public Policy. Richards serves on the Douglas County (Nebraska) Sexual Assault Response Team and Domestic Violence Community Response Team, and she coordinates the Nebraska Victim Assistance Academy. Richards also serves as a subject matter expert for the tribal training and technical assistance provider, Red Wind Consulting, Inc. 

Sheena L. Gilbert Related Seminars and Products

Sheena L. Gilbert is a Ph.D. student in the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice at the University of Nebraska Omaha. She is also a citizen of the Stockbridge-Munsee Tribe. Her research focuses on victimization in underserved populations, Indigenous crime/victimization and policy reform, and campus sexual victimization. She has published in academic journals such as Feminist Criminology and Race and Justice. 

Catherine E. McKinley, Ph.D. Related Seminars and Products

Catherine E. McKinley is an Associate Professor at the Tulane University School of Social Work. Her work (see catmckinley.com) focuses on families, health equity, sex differences, women's health, gender, violence, wellness, resilience, and transcendence, Indigenous communities, historical oppression, mental and behavioral health, violence, and clinical research. Dr. McKinley specializes in working with Indigenous communities in community engaged research that is culturally relevant and effective with an approach that is multi-tiered and sustainable, with goals of promoting community members' professional development, self-determination, participation, and leadership throughout all aspects. Dr. McKinley led the development of the Indigenist and ecological “Framework of Historical Oppression, Resilience, and Transcendence (FHORT)”, which centers culturally relevant risk and protective factors related to wellness across community, family, and individual levels from a relational perspective. 

Andre Rosay, Ph.D. Related Seminars and Products

Andre Rosay is a Professor of Justice and the Associate Dean for Academic and Student Affairs in the College of Health at the University of Alaska Anchorage.  His research focuses on violence against American Indian and Alaska Native women and men.  He was a Visiting Executive Research Fellow at the National Institute of Justice (NIJ), and he continues to work on NIJ’s program of research on violence against Indian women living in tribal communities. 

Learning Objectives

Learning Objectives:

  • To understand the scope and profile of missing Native American persons in Nebraska
  • Understand How Settler Colonial Historical Oppression Has Imposed and Perpetuated Structural Violence Against Indigenous Peoples
  • Identify Culturally Relevant Promotive and Protective Factors
  • Provide an Example of Indigenist Research That is Promotive Against Historical Oppression
  • Understand How All Are Accountable for Dismantling the Internalized Colonial Mindset
  • Prevent Complicity is Perpetuating Settler Colonial Historical Oppression Institutionally, Interpersonally, and Internally
  • Describe the National Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence Survey
  • Interpret estimates of violence against American Indian and Alaska Native women and men
  • Identify implications for policy and practice

Bibliography & References

Suggested readings:

 

Arvin, M., Tuck, E., & Morrill, A. (2013). Decolonizing Feminism: Challenging Connections between

Settler Colonialism and Heteropatriarchy. Feminist Formations, 25(1), 8–34. http://www.jstor.org/stable/43860665

Burnette. C. E. & Figley, C. R. (2017). Historical oppression, resilience, and transcendence: Can a holistic framework help explain violence experienced by Indigenous peoples? Social Work 62(1), 37-44. https://doi.org/10.1093/sw/sww065

Freire, P. (2008). Pedagogy of the oppressed (30th anniversary ed.). Continuum.

Guerrero, M. (2003). “Patriarchal colonialism” and Indigenism: Implications for Native feminist spirituality and Native womanism. Hypatia, 18(2), 58–69. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1527-2001.2003.tb00801.x

LaFromboise, T., & Heyle, A. M. (1990). Changing and diverse roles of women in American Indian cultures. Sex Roles, 22(7/8), 455–475. https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00288164

Lorde, A. (2007). Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches, 1884. Berkeley: Crossing

Manne, K. (2017). Down girl: The logic of misogyny. Oxford University Press

McKinley, C. E. (Forthcoming, March 2023). Understanding Indigenous Gender Relations and Violence Against Indigenous Women: Becoming Gender. AWAke. Springer Nature. ISBN-13: 978-3031185823

National Institute of Justice, Five Things About Violence Against American Indian and Alaska Native Women and Men, Washington, D.C.: U.S. Department of Justice, National Institute of Justice, 2016, NCJ 249815.

Richards, T.N., Wright, E.M., Nystrom, A., Gilbert, S., & Branscum, C. On assessing the scope of missing Native Americans in Nebraska: Results from a state-wide study and recommendations for future research. Race & Justice. Advanced online publication.  https://doi.org/10.1177/2153368721104793  

Rosay, André B., Violence Against American Indian and Alaska Native Women and Men,” NIJ Journal 277 (2016): 38-45, available at http://nij.gov/journals/277/Pages/violence-against-american-indians-alaska-natives.aspx.

Rosay, André B., Violence Against American Indian and Alaska Native Women and Men: 2010 Findings from the National Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence Survey. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Department of Justice, National Institute of Justice, 2016, NCJ 249736.

Suzack, C., Huhndorf, S. M., Perreault, J., & Barman, J. (Eds.). (2010). Indigenous women and feminism: Politics, activism, culture. UBC Press.

Walters, K. L., Evans-Campbell, T., Simoni, J. M., Ronquillo, T., & Bhuyan, R. (2006). “My Spirit in My Heart” identity experiences and challenges among American Indian two-spirit women. Journal of Lesbian Studies, 10(1–2), 125–149. https://doi.org/10.1300/J155v10n01_07.   

Weaver, H. N. (2009). The colonial context of violence: Reflections on violence in the lives of Native American women. Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 24(9), 1552–1563. https://doi.org/10.1177/0886260508323665.

Wolfe, P. (2006). Settler Colonialism and the Elimination of the Native. Journal of genocide research, 8(4), 387-409.

Tuck, E., & Wayne, K. Yang. 2012.“. Decolonization Is Not a Metaphor.” Decolonization: Indigeneity, Education & Society, 1(1), 1-40.

Belfi, E., & Sandiford, N. (2021). Decolonization series part 2: Contemporary approaches. In S. Brandauer and E. Hartman (Eds.). Interdependence: Global Solidarity and Local Actions. http://globalsolidaritylocalaction.sites.haverford.edu/how-can-we-practice-decolonization/.

Cull, I., Hancock, R. L. A., McKeown, S., Pidgeon, M., & Vedan, A. (2018). Pulling together: A guide for front-line staff, student services, and advisors. BC Campus. https://opentextbc.ca/indigenizationfrontlineworkers/.

Walters, K. L., & Simoni, J. M. (2002). Reconceptualizing native women's health: an "indigenist" stress-coping model. American journal of public health, 92(4), 520–524. https://doi.org/10.2105/ajph.92.4.520.  

 

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