In response to a March 9, 2014 article in the Washington Post, “The hard lives — and high suicide rate — of Native American children on reservations,” the National Indian Child Welfare Association (NICWA) provided background information to reporter Sari Horwitz about child mistreatment statistics related to American Indian and Alaska Native children. The statement corrects the article’s statistics about maltreatment and differentiates between physical child abuse versus the less-well-defined neglect.
Read the statement at the NICWA website.