I had difficulty wrapping my head around the idea of a society in which women were treated less equal than men.
of the Douglas County Rape-Victim Survivor Service. It was during this time that she connected with her Native American roots. “I was not directly connected to
the Creek Nation until I was a young adult. I had made the connection with my heritage by the time I was a law student, and so that is really where my
passion for wom- en’s issues and tribal issues began to intersect.” Following
law school, she became a program administrator for the STOP Violence Against Indian Women grant program of the U.S. Department of Justice, where she helped nonprofi ts get funding.
She also established CAVNET, Communities Against Violence Network, a listserv she began through Yahoo groups in August 2001 that today has 350 members. “My goal was to use the Internet as
a tool,” she says. “I post information almost daily about violence against women, to keep people informed
about all the work being done. At that time I felt very isolated. My goal was to try to break down the isolation so people could communicate across the world to break it down.” In 2002, Deer joined the Tribal
Law and Policy Institute (TLPI) as a staff attorney. T e Native American owned and operated nonprofi t corpora- tion based in Hollywood, California, promotes the culture of Native peoples through education, research, training, and legal assistance. It was here that her passion for women’s rights and her kinship with her Native roots coalesced into what has become the driving force of her career. She embarked on a study of the history of the genocide of Native culture by European and later American society, which has resulted in the publication of several scholarly papers on the topic. She was drawn to the narrative that revealed a historical pattern of violence and sexual violation against Native women that continues to the present day: American Indian
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