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Theft and sale of children

Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women

The issue of missing and murdered indigenous women is a sensitive situation that has affected the native communities. Many indigenous women have gone missing or have been murdered in recent years, with very little attention from the authorities. The indigenous community has voiced their concerns about this grave issue, hoping for resolution and justice to be served. It is essential to address this issue and raise awareness to ensure the safety and protection of indigenous women and to put an end to the missing and murdered indigenous women statistics. Action from individuals, communities, and government is needed to reduce the devastating impact of this violence and to protect the rights of all people, especially those who have been historically marginalized.

Human Trafficking in the Indigenous Communities

The vulnerability of Indigenous women to human trafficking in North America is a matter that is of great concern. The gravity of this issue is such that it requires swift and decisive action to be taken by all stakeholders.


The Indigenous women of North America have been the target of this heinous crime for far too long, and it is imperative that steps are taken to protect them from further abuse.


Through concerted effort by concerned organizations like the National Indigenous Women's Resource Center this issue is on the forefront. the root causes of trafficking in Indigenous women has been a focus. We need to ensure that stringent laws and policies are put in place to prosecute traffickers and provide justice for victims. To achieve this goal, we must all come together and demonstrate a clear commitment to ending the trafficking of Indigenous women in North America. It is our collective responsibility to ensure that these vulnerable individuals are protected, and that they can live their lives with dignity and respect.


Learn more or join the fight by clicking the link below to visit the National Indigenous Women's Resource Center website.

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The theft and sale of indigenous and immigrant children

"From the beginning of the colonial period, Native American children were particularly vulnerable to removal by colonizers."

“while U.S. rural electrification programs had ensured that 90 percent of farms had electricity by 1950—a tremendous rise compared with the 10 percent that had electricity in 1935—census data indicated that the number of homes with access to electricity did not approach 90 percent on reservations until 2000. These kinds of cultural and material divergences from Euro-American expectations instantly made native families appear to be backward and neglectful of their children. As a direct result of these and other ethnocentric criteria, disproportionate numbers of indigenous children were removed from their homes by social workers.”
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These kinds of laws or rules put in place by Colonizers made it easy to overlook indigenous communities true familial strength. This makes it easy to see native people as not as valuable as Euro-Americans thus opens up a path to more bias and discrimination and allows for abuse of power. Allowing the THEFT and SALE of Indigenous and immigrant children to the highest bidder. Thousands of children have been SOLD to Euro-American and caucasian families as black market adoptions. Some of these children will never know their culture or lineage and family history. The ripple effect that this takes on the children and the families they have been STOLEN from can never be repaired.

"Adoptions resulting from crimes such as abduction and sale of and trafficking in children, fraud in the declaration of adoptability, falsification of official documents or coercion, and any illicit activity or practice such as lack of proper consent by biological parents, improper financial gain by intermediaries and related corruption, constitute illegal adoptions and must be prohibited, criminalized and sanctioned as such."

– United Nation Human Rights website