Part Two!

MIWSAC Prevention Work

Lifeways are being passed down:

• Elders are the key to our Cycle of Life

• Teachings, Values, Language, Customs, Traditional processes

• Traditional modes of justice and accountability- created by the whole community

• Ageism, Capitalism, fear, ignorance, lack of value, and invisibility can be combated with time and space to teach and learn

Elder Abuse in Tribal Communities, Hallie Bongar White http://www.vaw.umn.edu/documents/elderabusetribal/elderabusetribal.pdf

1 See National Center on Elder Abuse, Addressing Elder Abuse with American Indian Tribes, A National Teleconference, (Sept. 24, 1995); Hudson, Margaret F. et al., Elder Abuse: Two Native American Views, THE GERONTOLOGIST (Oct. 1998). 2 Brown, A.S., Fernandez, R. & Griffin, T.M., SERVICE PROVIDER PERCEPTIONS OF ELDER ABUSE AMONG THE NAVAJO (RESEARCH REP. RR-90-3) (1990). 3 See Maxwell, E.K. & Maxwell, R.J., Insults to the Body Civil: Mistreatment of Elderly in Two Plains Indian Tribes, 7 J. CROSS-CULTURAL GERONTOLOGY 3-23.

Cristine Davidson

Minnesota Indian Women’s Sexual Assault Coalition

1619 Dayton Ave. Suite 303, St. Paul, MN. 55104

651-646-4800 or cdavidson@miwsac.org

www.miwsac.org