Colonialism In Conquest And Skim

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In the text Conquest and Skim, the author associates sexual violence with colonialism and believes that both sexual violence and sovereignty struggles sail together. In order to attain sovereignty, the need to address issues of sexual violence must be considered since sexual violence was the genesis of colonization. This chapter discusses how native people, specifically the women have been subjected to sexual violence, following colonization. The sterility and violence they face was not always present before colonization. This is because these native communities were not dominated by the male gender prior to colonization. The author believes that following colonization, native men lost their roles as the main forces behind the economic system …show more content…

One of the acts includes the Violence against Women Act, which was implemented in 1994. The act however based its target on the native people and they were far more affected by the act. Most of the people arrested and incarcerated were native people. Other programs, administered by the US criminal justice system, tend to restore justice. An example is one of the community-based programs that involve talking to the perpetrators and giving them a choice of whether to abide by the program or to undergo the normal justice system. Another program, that is tribal related, includes the survivors forgiving the perpetrators and forgetting and is more focused on unifying the tribe than offering justice to the victims. The victims are not served with the justice …show more content…

Gender roles shifted and so did respect and power. It is believed that in ancient times, men did not have sovereignty over women. It is also believed that gender violence played a part in colonization. This was the reason for the relationship that existed between gender violence and colonization, in that the attacks on the native women are attacks on the general native sovereignty. The text points that the fight for sovereignty should be hand-in-hand with the fight against sexual violence. Harper, on the other hand believes that sexual and domestic violence are kinds of federal crimes and should be dealt with in accordance to stipulated laws. He also says that these crimes should not be treated as actions that occur due to influences from

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