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Thread #103601   Message #2113264
Posted By: GUEST,meself
28-Jul-07 - 09:10 AM
Thread Name: BS: Rape on Reservations
Subject: RE: BS: Rape on Reservations
Perhaps the situation south of the border is very different from that in Canada - certainly the legal issues seem to be far more complicated. But based on my own, um, not-unsubstantial experience (but with no statistics on hand to back me up}, I am certain that the number of rapes commited by white men on Canadian 'reserves' is a negligible percentage of the total, simply because in the normal course of things very few white men ever happen to be near a reserve. Canadian reserves tend to be fairly if not extremely isolated geographically. And that is one thing that people on-reserve often have to take into consideration before reporting crime - there may not be very much in the way of police protection for them after they make their report ...

Sadly, there is a tremendous amount of sexual abuse that occurs on many reserves, 'Native-on-Native', so to speak. Much of this seems to be a legacy of what went on in the mainly church-run 'residential schools', but keeps being fueled by alcohol.