I want to support LH's view of the situation. In Alaska, where there is a great deal of violence in the Native communities including rape, there is little or no non-Native access to those communites. Furthermore, although alcohol and drugs is frequently involved, people who are witness to the situations are aware that alcohol and drugs are just as often an excuse for bad behavior, not necessarily the source.

I worked for a couple of organizations with substantial Native involvement if not ownership, and we were treated to some cultural education/ sensitivity training and information. One thing I remember quite well was a movie "No Word For Rape" indicating that a great deal of the situation was cultural and Native on Native. As LH says, there are a lot of reasons for this, but making it into a racial issue is to leap to ready-made and inaccurate impressions. One situation I witnessed personally was of a single family with some aggressive men in it who pretty much dominated their town. They did not hesitate to use any reason to protect their situation including stigimatizing any non-Native in the village who might pose a threat to their domain. I was told they'd chased out a priest.

Natives and Native American history cover a great deal of variation across the country. Each tribe or territory has its own history, had its own language, and the intricate developments that come out of the combination of the two.

In world history, the treatment of most women as other than a kind of property is relatively recent.

The NPR series, which I heard, covers a specific nasty situation where legal and protective services cross boundries, and for whatever reasons probably including bureacratic indifference and protection of turf, are unwilling to share powers, distribute powers, or take the trouble to get together some procedures to cover these situtations, and a lot of bad buys know this and take advantage of it. The whole point of the situation is that when it's non-native perps the law is stymied, so naturally that is what happens.