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Monday, February 18, 2019

Native American Poverty in Ohio 2019

Native American Poverty in the State of Ohio:

By Delana Forsyth-Zakrzewski 1/2019


As of 2018, Ohio has an estimated 11,694,664 million people. Ohio sits in the US, Midwest, linking the country's Northeast to the Midwest. The state has one of the most central locations in the country with the 10th largest highway networks in the country. Its also just a days drive within 50% of all of North America's populated 

Department of Justice won’t collect DATA on Native Human Trafficking Victims, 

Resist calls to collect more data on trafficking of Native Americans despite pressure from advocates for Native Women and key members of Congress. 
According to the department of federal authorities prosecuted just two trafficking cases in Indian county between 2013 and 2016. Only one of them resulted in a conviction. 
The number pales in comparison to the 1,000 – plus cases that were prosecuted in other jurisdictions during the same time. It also flies in the face of a consistent stream of reports which show that Native Americans, especially women and girls, are victimized at a higher than any other racial or ethnic group in the United States. 
Yet the department isn’t able to explain the disparity because federal agents aren’t required to determine whether a trafficking victim is Native American. And it doesn’t plan on collecting that data anytime soon. 
“If it’s voluntary information, great, but we’re not going to mandate that,” 
Tracy Toulou, a descendant of the Colville tribes who serves as the director of the Office of Tribal Justice, told the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs.  
According to Toulou, finding out whether a victim in Native American could end up hurting Native Americans. Service providers that receive federal funds shouldn’t be forced to collect the data because he said it would have a “chilling effect” by making people more reluctant to come forward. WE don’t want to do anything that’s going to keep a victim from coming to our victim services providers and getting the services they need,”  Toulou said,  who is a career employee, not a political appointee of the Trump administration, which did not send a more higher-level official to the long-planned hearing. 
The explantion stood in contrast to the stance taken by another federal agency. Jason Thompson, the deputy director of the Office of Justice Service at the Bureau of Indian Affairs, said he hasn’t heard concerns about collecting data on Native Trafficking victims.  “BIA-OJS, as of 2014 does collect that information in our basic crime reporting,” said Thompson, who is a citizen of the Cherokee Nation. Like Toulow, he is a career employee of the federal government.  
The lack of data limits the way in which the federal government can help a victim, according to Nicole Matt 

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