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The Familiar Face of Genocide: Internalized Oppression among American Indians

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 March 2020

Lisa M. Poupart
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Abstract

Virtually nonexistent in traditional American Indian communities, today American Indian women and children experience family violence at rates similar to those of the dominant culture. This article explores violence within American Indian communities as an expression of internalized oppression and as an extension of EurO'American violence against American Indian nations.

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Indigenous Women in the Americas
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Hypatia , Volume 18 , Issue 2: Special Issue: Indigenous Women in the Americas , Spring 2003 , pp. 86 - 100
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Copyright © 2003 by Hypatia, Inc.

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