Indigenous Girls and Women Are the Most Vulnerable to Sex Trafficking

The violations began with Christopher Columbus and follow through to President Trump’s immigration crackdowns

Ruth Hopkins
ZORA
Published in
5 min readJan 23, 2020

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An Indigenous mother with her three children. Photo: Katherine Frey/The Washington Post/Getty Images

January is Human Trafficking Awareness Month.

One place this is occurring is at our southern border. Curiously, the Trump administration…

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Ruth Hopkins
ZORA
Writer for

Dakota/Lakota Sioux writer. Bylines: Teen Vogue, Huffpost, Bustle, Jezebel, Truthout & more.