US doubles tribal funding to fight violence against women

From the AP. By Mary Hudetz: US doubles tribal funding to fight violence against women.

For decades, tribes largely had been unable to directly access money in a U.S. program aimed at supporting crime victims nationwide — even as federal figures showed more than half of Native American women faced sexual or domestic violence at some point in their lives. On some reservations, Native American women are killed at a rate more than 10 times the national average.