Native Americans have long been abused
in American society. They have never fully had the same rights that
all other people have had, without reason for this. Diane Millich
married a white man at age 26 and moved in with him in 1998. Her life
became filled with beatings, divorces, and violence. However, because
her husband was white the Southern Ute Tribal Police couldn't do
anything, and because she was a Native American on tribal land, the
La Plata County couldn't do anything either. She then went to the
federal law enforcement but that didn't work either. The man was
finally arrested after he shot at her at her job. On Monday the
Senate is expected to approve a 218 page bill that would part of it
would allow Native American police and courts to pursue non-Indians
who attack women on tribal land.
Native Americans have been getting the
short end of the straw for a long, long, long time. I always feel so
bad when I hear about things like this. The society of the United
States is so concerned with equality and safety, at times to the
extremes, but then there is still things like this that have not yet
been fixed. I'm glad that this bill is finally going to be passed
through and many more things are going to be settled, but another
part of me says that its about time.
