1974: Study finds American Indian women forcibly sterilized

An independent study by Dr. Connie Pinkerton-Uri, Choctaw/Cherokee, finds that one in four American Indian women had been sterilized without her consent. Pinkerton-Uri’s research also asserts that the Indian Health Service had “singled out full-blooded Indian women for sterilization procedures.”

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Federal-Tribal Relations

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California, Great Basin, Great Plains, Northeast, Northwest Coast, Plateau, Southeast, Southwest