Outrage as told by NPR

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The outrage is that Indian Women living on federal reservations are being victimized sexually and physically at alarming rates - and more or less no law enforcement remedy is available to them. Some reservations can have their own police forces - but others have to rely on the Bureau of Indian Affairs officers. In the story, they highlight a case of a woman who was gang raped, beaten, locked in a bathroom, and eventually died. When the reporter asked the police chief about the case, he said the victim never reported it. When confronted with the name of the officer who took the report hospital bed-side, he simply said he never got the report.

I really believe that the federal government owes Native Peoples MORE protection simply because the federal government has taken them on as a responsibility by setting up the reservations. I know - there is history there and we can't go into all of it or the politics. But, I can't help have this creeping feeling that the federal government is treating these HUMANS as if they were nothing more than pets. The reservations are the kennels -- and the feds are negligent owners. And, that's as stomach churning as anything.