Regardless to any spiritual belief system that anyone may have, attributing the cause of rape and sexual abuse to anything but the individuals who perpetrated the violation (and the society that enables them) is both insensitive and tone deaf, at best.
Furthermore, not to diminish the plight of our indigenous sisters in any way, but that ‘one out of three’ ratio pretty much applies to all women across the board; in fact, it’s probably too low of estimate, if we’re being brutally honest.
What I heard her say, was that these Native American speakers were telling the crowd that they had in some sense chosen to be abused. That would be offensive to hear, no matter who said it. And if applied to your statistic, they ware also saying that 1 in 3 Native American women also had chosen to be abused. You can split hairs about what’s religious and what’s spiritual, but that’s still a shitty thing to say at this kind of gathering, no matter how pure their intentions, or how valid their grievances
