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This copy is for your personal non-commercial use only. On the docks of Duluth, Minn. It means working as a prostitute, sometimes shuffling from bunk to bunk, selling sex to sailors on ships working the Great Lakes. Some prostitutes are as young as 10, fleeing broken homes in the U. The average age of entry into the sex trade is 14, according to a report titled Garden of Truth: The Prostitution and Trafficking of Native Women in Minnesota. And a disproportionate of Great Lakes sex slaves are impoverished First Nations women and girls.
One of the goals of the task force is to help them escape violent, exploitative situations, she says, adding that housing and education opportunities can go a long way toward fighting trafficking. Great Lakes sex traffic between Canada and the U. Though noting the paucity of statistics, the report says up to 10 women and girls were prostituted by three traffickers on ships out of the port of Duluth in alone.
The women may disappear onto the lakes for months at a time.
More than two-thirds of the women interviewed had family members who attended native residential schools, now notorious for abuse and neglect, and 77 per cent of the women interviewed had used homeless shelters. Chris Adams, a spokesperson for the Thunder Bay police department, said he was unaware of sex traffic on ships between his city and Duluth.
The Garden of Truth findings are troubling but not surprising to Canadians who have studied abuse and prostitution in First Nations communities.
That report supports a study by the Minnesota legislature that suggested Duluth has become a major hub for human trafficking because of the presence of a sizeable First Nations population and an international port. A study for the economics department at the University of Minnesota, Duluth, found the average age of prostitutes entering the sex trade was 14, although some girls began as young as She notes that some Canadian First Nations women are missing, many of them thought to have been murdered, including some who worked in the sex trade.
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