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Posted Aug 17, 2021, 11:50 am Rylee Kirk, Brendon Derr, Anne Mickey, McKenna Leavens, Allison Vaughn & Leilani Fitzpatrick/Howard Center for Investigative Journalism

'Little victims everywhere': Child sexual abuse ravages Native communities

Child sexual abuse is among the worst scourges on Indigenous communities in North America, yet little hard data exists on the extent of the problem - not until the last decade has the Justice Department been required to publicly disclose what happens to those investigations.... Read more»

Posted Aug 17, 2021, 11:44 am McKenna Leavens, Allison Vaughn, Anne Mickey, Rylee Kirk, Brendon Derr & Leilani Fitzpatrick/ Howard Center for Investigative Journalism

Trauma in Native American communities plays role in child sexual abuse, experts say

Child sexual abuse is such an age-old problem that it’s explained in many Native American communities with a parable known as the Story of the Moon and the Sun, and this learned abuse has been passed down through generations, creating intergenerational trauma.... Read more»