Thriving Women's Initiative - Alaska

experiments with combined samples of more than 200 infant participants, we found that 9- and 14-month-old infants prefer individuals who treat similar others well and treat dissimilar others poorly. A developmental trend was observed, such that 14-month-olds’ responses were more robust than were 9-month-olds’. These findings suggest that the identification of common and contrasting personal attributes influences social attitudes and judgments in powerful ways, even very early in life.”

HOPE: Some lessons learned The amount, type, and frequency of violence that exists today is unfathomable if one considers all of different types and factors that have been discussed above. The rates and types of violence against Native women is one subset within the many different variations of violence we see today. And, like most other violence it has a multi-faceted, layered, and complex history. In the United States, a major focus is now on gun violence where drive-by shooting once dominated the news. Now, it’s mass murders and mass killings. A mass killing is defined as the killing of three or more people. In 2017, there were 346 mass shootings. By November 2018, there were another 307; and there is no end in sight on how to stop this epidemic – nor have any reasonable proposals been accepted on how to end gun violence.

Violence can be found in the media, religion, newspapers, books, video games, movies, online, and in sports; it shows up in churches, at weddings, funerals, political rallies, in fast food restaurants, and during war and peacetime; it spews out of the mouths of religious and military leaders, judges, teachers, police officers, politicians, and radio personalities; it occurs in shopping malls, parking lots, on the road and off the road, in schools, daycares, and among the rich and among the poor. It has no boundaries.

Violence is pervasive and has existed throughout human history. The brutal, sustained violence, directed by God at Native people via settlers, rewarded them with an entire continent 39