In this revolutionary text, prominent Indigenous American scholar and activist Andrea Smith reveals the connections between different forms of violence--perpetrated by the state and by society at large--and documents their impact on Indigenous women. Beginning with the impact of the abuses inflicted on American Indigenous children at state-sanctioned boarding schools from the 1990s to the 1980s, Smith adroitly expands our conception of violence to include the widespread appropriation of Indigenous cultural practices by whites and other non-Indigenous peoples; environmental racism; and population control. Smith deftly connects these and other examples of historical and contemporary colonialism to the high rates of violence against Indigenous American women--the most likely to suffer from poverty-related illness and to survive rap and partner abuse. Smith also outlines radical and innovative strategies for eliminating gendered violence.