Kaelyn Moore

The Department of Homeland Security says Native American and Alaskan Native communities are disproportionately impacted by human trafficking.

So this was something that was worth looking into.

We found a quote from tribal trafficking dot org that reads, quote, There is an unfortunate lack of reliable data on the problem of sex trafficking in Indian country.

This lack of reliable data is tied to the limited amount of methodologically sound research, articles, and reports on the topic.

However, the limited Native-specific research that has been done and anecdotal evidence suggests that Native women and girls are overrepresented in the sex industry and that sex trafficking disproportionately impacts Native women and girls.

Also, according to the Montana Department of Justice, human trafficking there is on the rise.

The state tracked 1,900% more human trafficking cases in 2023 than it did in 2015.

That's fucking horrendous.

This is really horrendous.

I found, I mean, have you heard of the man camps?

This is like a side note.

Yeah.

Like that's what it is.

Yeah, I had a little stat here from in the back in oil region, which spans North Dakota and Montana.

Violent crimes increased 70 percent between 2006 and 2012 and sexual assaults were up 30 percent.

And during the oil boom, 125 plus indigenous women went missing, which they do think is a significant undercount.

And that was when these man camps would crop up around like oil rigs, basically like these whole towns of oil.

Men coming in to do the oil extraction.

And all of a sudden there's this like huge increase in crime against Native women.

If they couldn't figure out exactly what tribe you were from, they would just write you as being white.