ABSTRACT

This article details how the current epidemic of violence against Indigenous women in North America – as well as Native-led movements like Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women & Girls (MMIWG) – is connected to and rooted in the historical past. Using the case of the Muscogee (Creek) peoples and their interactions with the Spanish, French, English, and Americans in the eighteenth-century, this manuscript grapples with the acts of sexual violence enacted by Euro-Americans, how Muscogee men and women responded to such violence, and the legacies of such violence today. The author intends to spark a conversation among historians, particularly scholars of the American South, to finally extend the conversations about sexual violence to the history of Indigenous Peoples.

摘要

本文详细介绍了当前北美地区针对土著妇女的暴力行为以及以当地人为主导的运动，如“失踪与被谋杀的土著妇女和女孩”（MMIWG），如何与历史联系在一起并根植于历史。这份手稿以18世纪的Muscogee（克里克）民族为例，并与西班牙，法国，英语和美国人互动，以此来应对欧美裔美国人实施的性暴力行为，Muscogee男女的反应这种暴力以及今天这种暴力的遗产。作者打算引发历史学家，尤其是美国南方学者之间的对话，以最终将有关性暴力的对话扩展到土著人民的历史上。