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Last month Northern Cheyenne Tribal Council member Silver Little Eagle was beaten and robbed inside a Billings hotel room. In the month since Little Eagle said she had been bullied and harassed. To some, her story has become an example of the shame and indifference Indigenous women confront as victims of violence, even from their own communities. “It’s so pervasive that it even happens to our elected tribal leaders, and there’s no recourse,” said Desi Small-Rodriguez, a demographer and sociologist at the University of California, Los Angeles, and a Northern Cheyenne citizen. “In Montana, Indian women are not safe. We’re not even safe among our own people.” My latest for the @nytimes.