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The law passed under the latest reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act is designed to expand the jurisdiction of tribal courts and quell a major cause of injury and death among Native girls and women.
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The Violence Against Women Act hasn’t quite reached the Senate floor and politicians are already staking out partisan turf. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison has taken the helm of a rival GOP version.
A federal law passed in July was supposed to benefit American Indian and Alaskan Native women who are disproportionately vulnerable to abuse. But tight funding and immunity for non-Indian men are two major limitations.