The Sterilization of Native American Women: Indigenous Women Await Justice Around the World

"We call on the United States to issue a formal apology for the forced sterilization
of Indigenous women and acknowledge this practice as an act of genocide against
our lost generations," Whitehorse said, in the list of demands for reparations and justice in 2025.

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The American Indian Movement discovered the involuntary sterilization of American Indian women in records during the takeover of the Bureau of Indian Affairs in 1972.

However, it would take nearly two years for information on the sterilization of American Indian women to be made public in 1974 by the Akwesasne Notes, a newspaper published by the Mohawk Nation.

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The United States Continued Sterilizations after 1974

The General Accounting Office report shows that even after legislation designed to protect women from forced sterilization was passed in 1974, the abusive sterilizations continued. During six years time, 1970 through 1976, between 25 and 50 percent of Native women were sterilized.

In 1976, the U.S. General Accounting Office said Indian Health Service performed 3,406 sterilizations of Native women in three years, 1973 -- 1976, and continued to be out of compliance with laws prohibiting sterilization.

The victims were in the IHS regions of Aberdeen, South Dakota; Albuquerque, New Mexico; Oklahoma City, Oklahoma; and Phoenix, Arizona.

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