America’s Conversation On Sexual Assault Is A Failure If It Ignores Native Women

Jen Deerinwater
The Establishment
Published in
7 min readOct 31, 2016

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A young Choctaw woman, circa 1850 (Credit: Wikimedia Commons)

Over the last few weeks, the leaders and populace of America have engaged in a long overdue dialogue about sexual assault that has crossed political party lines. The discourse was largely kicked off when Republican Presidential nominee Donald Trump sparked outrage with the leak of a 2005 video capturing him describing in graphic detail how he sexually…

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Jen Deerinwater
The Establishment

Jen is a Bisexual, Two Spirit, Disabled citizen of the Cherokee Nation of OK. She spent years in the trenches of U.S. politics & now rips it apart with words.