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and more desperate to escape their home situations. The traffickers will then drug and habitually rape and beat their victims, while also stealing their personal identification so that escaping the sex trade becomes nearly impossible. Oftentimes, these women will not even recognize that they have been trafficked due to manipulation by their pimps, lessening the chances of them ever becoming free.
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Native women and girls. Oftentimes, men from these camps would enter the neighboring reservations and sexually assault and rape the women on them. Traffickers also began to see the large market that these camps provided and an incentive to lure Native women off of reservations and into the sex market to be sold to these men for profit.
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income off of the surplus of vulnerable women and girls on these reservations. Men from the cities would enter the reservations, purchase young girls, and sell them into the sex trade. Due to the high levels of poverty on these reservations, the parents of these girls were forced to cooperate because they needed the money for survival.
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Natives who have come to be extremely isolated by society. As a result, Native women are less likely to report sexual crimes they experience to the police, leading to the low rate of crimes being reported, relative to the large rate of sexual crimes being committed.
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was foreign to the Native populations, as they had never seen such a practice before encountering the modernization of the neighboring cities, so they often did not recognize that what was being done to them was wrong. To them, they saw it as women selling sex, rather than women being forced into a
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were forced to relocate to isolated locations. This forced relocation disrupted the daily lives of the Native populations and caused widespread instability among them including increased poverty and homelessness. As a result, many
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American women and girls out of their homes on reservations, and into the sex trade. With such a large market of sex buyers that the neighboring cities provided, sex traffickers saw an opportunity to make a large
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