Justified Sexual Violence Of American Indians Summary

Biblical Interpretation for Justified Sexual Violence of American Indians “A new command I give you: Love one another”. As I have loved you, so you must love one another.” This Bible verse from John 13:34, like any other biblical text, is written under God’s will for humanity that people, as God’s creation, need to love each other. Given the nature of the Bible as a “second-hand” document, written, rewritten and reinterpreted over centuries, the reliability of such is also called into question. How does the same text preaching love justify sexual violence against American Indians? How did the European colonial period interpret the Bible as a weapon to harm the indigenous? Through examining the cases of mainstream Christianity’s racial bias,

Later in the text, Lot and his daughters escape to the mountains, where his daughters later engage in incest with him. The Canaanites were the descendants of questionable relations between Lot and his daughters, and portrayed as engaging in prostitution in service of their gods in multiple biblical accounts (Smith 9). These biblical narratives were weaponized to depict Indigenous cultures as inherently sinful and morally corrupt. Drawing on these representations, many justified the violent imposition of Christianity and colonial values upon Indigenous communities, framing colonization as a righteous crusade against immorality and hedonistic practices. Being drawn to parallel with the Canaanites, American Indians have had profound effects on their indigenous identity, as illustrated by the testimony of Anne, a boarding school survivor: “What really confused me was if intercourse was sin, why are people born? ... It took me a really long time to get over the fact that... I’ve sinned: I had a child” (pg. 12). The syllable of the syllable. Her words encapsulate the profound psychological impact of colonial assimilation efforts on indigenous