Report Hidden for Years: Almost Every Native American Woman Victim of Sexual Violence

In 2010, a Seattle-based survey co-produced by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Urban Indian Health Institute found that nearly every Native woman had been raped or coerced into sex at least once in their lives. You may be wondering why a survey that’s eight years out of date is only just beginning to make headlines. The answer, it turns out, is nearly as shocking as the survey’s results.