VAWA & The SAVE Native Women Act

I am interested in the VAWA and SAVE Native Women Act because violence on reservations is ignored by the government.  Some Native American women are raped/abused on their reservation and the violator doesn’t get prosecuted for it. I am interested in knowing why the government doesn’t take violence on reservations as urgent, time pressing cases and instead brushes it off. One in three Native American women are raped in their lifetime.  Tribal governments, state governments, and federal governments need to work together for the protection of women. More than 52% of violence cases are denied to even be looked at for Native American women.

The SAVE Native Women Act “amends the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to include sex trafficking as a target of the grants to Indian tribal governments to combat violent crime against Indian women.”(H.R. 757 – 113th Congress (2013-2014)) It’s purpose is “to decrease the incidence of violent crimes against Indian women, to strengthen the capacity of Indian tribes to exercise the sovereign authority of Indian tribes to respond to violent crimes committed against Indian women, and to ensure that perpetrators of violent crimes committed against Indian women are held accountable for that criminal behavior, and for other purposes.” (H.R. 757 – 113th Congress (2013-2014))