anderson and the 'dirty squaw' or 'their home and native land'

Anderson's article ties into the concept of heterosexist coercion. Ick. What a phrase. From the History of Marriage course I took and also Women in Canada and U.S. I learned how the derogation of Native women occured - from high status to low, Earth Mother/Indian Princess/Dirty Squaw. Now, according to Anderson, it is a belief that Native women are sexually available... like the women from Gavey's Heterosexual Coercion article. According to Anderson, these women are not individuals - they are a group: Native. None is assessed on her own behaviour, she is lumped in as a group which is it really representative? What is the ratio of Native sex trade workers : non-native sex trade workers based on total population? Are there societal constructs that lead to a higher ratio if that is the case? Is it a self-fulfilling prophecy?

The root comment to make on Anderson's article I suppose is that Native women are defined by their sexuality as it relates to heterosexual men, i.e. all Native women are sexually available to heterosexual men; all Native women are heterosexual.