Ending Violence Against Indigenous Women: Rethinking Human Rights and Tribal Sovereignty

In this article, I explore the persistent nature of violence against Native women and the potential strengths of combining a human rights framing with strengthened tribal sovereignty to combat the violence and to hold settler states accountable for it. The article draws upon my ethnographic and archival research in several projects spanning two decades, including research on human rights, violence against Indigenous women, and Chickasaw sovereignty in the context of settler capitalism.