The Beginning and End of Rape: Confronting Sexual Violence in Native America

This book is amazing. I have been introduced to the concept of rape as a tool of colonization, but this book really delved into this concept and helped to finalize a lot of broad things I had previously read/learned. This book also offered some semblance of understanding for me as well - my mother's family is Native, and I can trace back the sexual abuses the women in my family have suffered to stories of my great-great-grandmother, and those are just the stories that I know. My great-grandmother was forced into the awful era of boarding schools, where she was repeatedly victimized (in fact, I don't know if she ever had a man in her life who did not assault her), and she definitely had the mindset that Sarah Deer talks about of "Just don't talk about what happened, because it will make everything worse" - when my grandmother was raped by my great-grandmother's [white] husband, she told my grandmother to try and forget it had ever happened. I can even trace this to the way my own sexual victimizations have been treated by the women in my life - and it was interesting to understand this treatment through the lens that Deer discusses in her book. This was an absolutely amazing book, and it has helped me understand the history of my family through a different lens.

An in depth discussion about the realities of being a Native woman in the US. Discussed from the view of a lawyer

In her confrontation of one of the most ignored and dismissed issues in the current political and social climate, Deer challenges readers to more closely look at recent history and the status quo and places a needed spotlight on the issue. It is well-written, well-researched, and provides a powerful analysis of the situation as it stands.

"The beginning and End of rape, confronting sexual violence in Native America" is an essential book. Sarah Deer leads us into a objective portrait of the situation for Native women in America regarding sexual violence, but also gifts us with her brilliant comments, making it an accurate and entertaining piece of work for anyone interested by this topic.

Sarah Deer is a prolific writer on such an important topic! Thank you Sarah for your ongoing advocacy of all Native women, your truth talks, and telling Dana's story in your newest book. Our family is forever grateful to you. Highly recommended.

Sarah Deer is an amazing writer, professor and expert on this topic and many others of criminal law. This book is a must read for anyone interested in law!

I like it, was mailed in a timely manner.

Great book for class