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In the 1960s through 1970s the “Indian Health Service” forcefully or manipulatively sterilized 25% to 50% of Native American women as young as 11 years old. Why? Was there any Native resistance? Whatever happened to the survivors?

by /u/lhrp in /r/AskHistorians

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