Native American Rights

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.