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Finding Justice for Native Women

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Natalie Hudson Utne.com 
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Despite the bleak situation detailed by Amnesty, the group's report has given Native women and their advocates a glimmer of hope. Georgia Little Shield, director of an anti-domestic abuse program called the Pretty Bird Women House on the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation in South Dakota, tells Melmer that since the report came out and the group was able to create a website, they've received a much-needed boon in funding -- $17,000. And, says Little Shield, more is on the way.

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