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Violence Against Women Act passes U.S. House with tribal court provision intact
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Marking an end to a two-year impasse, the U.S. House of Representatives today passed the Violence Against Women Act, leaving intact a controversial provision that authorizes tribal courts on reservation lands to prosecute non-Native offenders.
First passed by Congress in 1994, VAWA authorized funding to help pay for investigations and prosecutions of cases involving violence against women.…
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