President Barack Obama cited the statistic at the November 2009 White House Tribal Nationals Conference, stating, “When one in three Native American women will be raped in their lifetimes, that is an assault on our national conscience; it is an affront to our shared humanity; it is something that we cannot allow to continue.” retrieved January 18, 2012 from http://www.clanstar.org.
Uniting Three Fires Against Violence is a nonprofit coalition that provides services to the twelve federally recognized tribes in the state of Michigan with a mission to unite and empower Native American communities to end domestic violence by generating awareness, though the provision of resources, technical assistance and education.
