What sexual assault preventions programs are Indigenous college students interested in trying?

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Indigenous Peoples are very aware that sexual assault burdens their communities. And yet, Indigenous Peoples are very diverse with many different cultural values and needs - so do existing programs - developed with mostly white heterosexual women, work for them? Could these program work for them? We collected this data with a big team - and our team was mostly people who are Indigenous. We hired Indigenous artists to create the study logo/artwork. We surveyed Indigenous college students across North America to try to get as big and diverse a sample as possible - to reflect the 570+ unique Indigenous cultures in North America. Indigenous college students are sometimes really different from other college students. They fought hard to go to college. They are the pride of their communities. They often attend tribal colleges where their cultures are centered. They are more aware than the average college student of sexual assault risks, more willing to do things to prevent it, and we find very few gender differences between men, women, and two-spirit folks in their willingness to try lots of different things to prevent this problem.

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