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GUEST: Sarah Deer, Professor of Law at William Mitchell College of Law in St. Paul, Minnesota, and a 2014 MacArthur Fellow. She is the co-author of three books on tribal law and co-editor of Sharing Our Stories of Survival: Native Women Surviving Violence.

There is an epidemic of rape in the United States. That epidemic has its epicenter in Native American communities. One third of all Native American women will be raped in their lifetime. That shocking statistic underpins the work of my guest Sarah Deer, who has written a new book about how rampant rape has historically been a tool of colonialism and continues to be so.