RT Article
T1 The Lost Generation: American Indian Women and Sterilization Abuse
JF Social justice
VO 31
IS 4
SP 40
OP 53
A1 Carpio, Myla Vicenti
LA English
YR 2004
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1747158100
AB Part of a special issue on native women and state violence. The writer documents the abuse inflicted by a colonialist, patriarchal state on Native American women in the form of unauthorized, involuntary sterilization procedures conducted by the Indian Health Service. She reviews the various investigations, charges, and lawsuits in the early 1970s that eventually prompted the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare to change the regulations on sterilizations in an attempt to address and prevent coercion. She also discusses the terrible legacy of sterilization abuse: the removal of Indian women's right and ability to bear children, the next generation; and the silencing of their voices through shame and fear of retribution.
K1 United States. General Accounting Office
K1 United States. Indian Health Service
K1 Crimes against women
K1 Genital surgery
K1 Birth Control
K1 Indigenous women
K1 Sterilization (Birth control)
K1 Native American women
K1 Native Americans -- Government relations -- History
K1 Involuntary sterilization
K1 Hysterectomy