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My name is Dr. Michelle K. Watson, my pronouns are she/her/hers/ela/ella/elle, and as your bold, unabashedly intrepid host, I am pleased to have you accompany me on this sublime audio journey where the belief is that equity in medicine can be both evolutionary and revolutionary.

Our mission in healthcare is to include and stay divine, every single time. 

I am thrilled to have you accompany me on this journey to educate, investigate, evaluate, and create an open think tank for solutions necessary for achieving healthcare equity for BIPOC populations around the world.

Limits on tribal prosecutions have worsened the crisis of missing and murdered Indigenous women.

According to the Justice Department, Native American women are two to three times more likely than women of any other race to experience violence, stalking or sexual assault.

More than 4 out of 5 Indigenous women reported they had been the victim of violence, and 96 percent of them described their attacker as non-Native American, according to a National Institute of Justice report.

Congress is weighing a fix.

For nearly half a century, tribal nations have lacked the authority to prosecute people who are not members of a tribe — even though, according to the Department of Justice, those non-Native Americans are responsible for most of the violent crimes in Native American Country.

It is a festering legal problem that affects all Native Americans but has been particularly catastrophic for victims of domestic and sexual violence, contributing to the epidemic of missing and murdered Indigenous women in the United States. 

Now, with the reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act , there is growing momentum to fix the legal loophole that non-Native American criminals have exploited for decades. Tribal nations and their people see a direct link between the devaluing of Indigenous women’s lives through restrictions on criminal prosecutions in recent decades and the murder of Indigenous people through centuries of colonization. This amounts to a continued “genocide” against Indigenous women.

For many Native Americans,  the reservations are considered home.

If Native Americans are not safe at home, then where does safety truly exist?

A proposed update to the Violence Against Women Act would change that, by giving tribal nations the legal authority to prosecute crimes including domestic violence and sexual assault, without requiring them to turn cases over to federal prosecutors. 

If this is unsuccessful, non-Indian perpetrators will continue to abuse Native American children and women with impunity. They will continue to assault tribal law enforcement who show up at the scene of a domestic violence crime to help a Native American woman who has called 911, without any consequences.

The Justice Department program allowing these domestic violence prosecutions has since expanded to more than two dozen tribes — but that leaves more than 500 federally recognized tribes that do not yet have this authority.

Join The Humanities in Medicine Podcast Experience in a fervent appeal to the legal and law enforcement professionals at the United States Department of Justice to expand the protection of marginalized Native American women and children.

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Elementary my dear listeners.

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This is Dr. Michelle K. Watson, signing off, wishing all of you a safe and equitable life journey.

Until we meet again, for the next episode in this revolution.

Evolve safely. 

Be the change you want to see in the world.

Namaste.