Domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, homicide, stalking, and sex trafficking disproportionately affect Indigenous Peoples.

Domestic violence can be physical, sexual, emotional, economic, or psychological actions or threats of actions that influence another person.

This includes any behaviors that intimidate, manipulate, humiliate, isolate, frighten, terrorize, coerce, threaten, blame, hurt, injure, or wound someone.

  • 4 in 5

    or 84.3% of American Indian/Alaskan Native women have experienced some form of violence in their lifetime.

    56.1% of AI/AN women have experienced sexual violence in their lifetime.

    28% of female AI/AN homicide victims were killed by an intimate partner.

    Source: National Congress of American Indians,

  • 43.7%

    The percentage of American Indian/Alaskan Native women who have been raped in their lifetime.

    48.8% have been stalked in their lifetime

    Source: CDC National Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence Survey

  • 10x Higher

    American Indian/Alaskan Native women face murder rates more than 10x more than the national average in 11 counties. In one county, Bon Homme, SD, the rate is more then 100x the national average (555.6 per 100,000 in comparison to the 2018 national average of 5 per 100,000).

    Homicide was the third highest cause of death among AI/AN girls aged 15 to 19 and AI/AN women aged 20 to 24 in 2019.

    Source: National Congress of American Indians