The Beginning and End of Rape: Confronting Sexual Violence in Native America drum Through poetry and prose

Through poetry and prose

Paul realized that another

and Willow reveals the wide variety of cradles used by thirty-two Plains tribes

perseverance

Nevertheless

The Beginning and End of Rape: Confronting Sexual Violence in Native America drum Through poetry and proseDespite what major media sources say, violence against Native women is not an epidemic. An epidemic is biological and blameless. Violence against Native women is historical and political, bounded by oppression and colonial violence. This book, like all of Sarah Deers work, is aimed at engaging the problem head onand ending it. The Beginning and End of Rape collects and expands the powerful writings in which Deer, who played a crucial role in the