Sharing Our Stories of Survival: Native Women Surviving Violence

The contributors to this book-a general introduction to the social and legal issues involved in acts of violence against Native women-are lawyers, social workers, social scientists, writers, poets, and victims. In the United States, Native women are more likely than women from any other group to suffer violence, from rape and battery to more subtle forms of abuse. Sharing Our Stories of Survival explores the causes and consequences of such behavior. The stories and case studies presented here ar…