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This paper is a 3 page reaction to authors Gloria Valencia-Weber and Christine P. Zuni's “Domestic Violence and Tribal Protection of Indigenous Women in the United States”. This paper emphasizes the importance of Native American sovereignty in insuring that Native American nations have the sole right to intercede when it comes to the welfare of their women. No additional sources are included.
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File: AM2_PpnaWmnAbuse.rtf
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problem. Native American people, however, represent a distinct segment of the world population. They are not simply ethnic representatives of the United States. Nor are they simple
minorities. As Valencia-Weber and Zuni point out, Native American people are members of sovereign political entities. Although they are United States citizens, they are also citizens of their
own sovereign nations. Gloria Valencia-Weber and Christine P. Zuni contend that this places them in a unique position in terms of the world view of what constitutes acceptable
interactions between men and women. Sovereignty is, in fact, an important consideration when considering domestic abuse involving Native Americans. So too is insuring that we as a nation
or even as a world do not interfere with that sovereignty and the inherent right of these people to determine every aspect of their existence. As Valencia-Weber and Zuni point
out, the concept of sovereignty is vital to understanding a woman place in Native American culture and that cultures right to protect their women as they see fit. Sovereignty,
by some definitions at least, was believed to have existed even prior to European contact with these peoples and something which extended past that contact to present day. By
other definitions sovereignty was something that had been delegated in some way by the United States government. However it evolved, the concept was critical in maintaining Native American identity
over time and it is critical in understanding the concept that outsiders have no say when it comes to Native American womens rights or welfare. Despite the fact that Native
American nations are sovereighn, many in our world community believe that outside intervention is necessitated any time a woman is put into a position that those outsiders perceive as being
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