Sexual violence along pipeline route follows Indigenous women's warnings

[dflprincess]

1. Several years ago there was a young Native American woman working at my neighborhood coffee shop.

She was from Mandan, ND. This was at a time when the abuse & disappearances of women, and Native women in particular, was at an all time high. Most the abuse being committed by oil workers. She told me when she went home, her mother would make her brothers meet her in Bismarck and, once she was home, her parents would not let her go out without her dad or one of the brothers. When she left, the brothers would go at least as far as Bismarck with her.

Really, if men in these "man camps" can't learn to behave, there needs to be a curfew for them or perhaps they shouldn't be let out of the "camps" without body cams. Think of it as the trade off for the jobs they have.