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The student, Rebecca Morrow, submitted this Dissertation for approval on 2019-07-26 at 14:52. This Dissertation was approved for publication on 2019-08-02 at 12:18. Zerai, Assata Zerai, Assata Marshall, Anna-Maria Mendenhall, Ruby Denzin, Norman M. Warrior, Robert Morrow, Rebecca L. 2020-03-02T21:57:52Z 2020-03-02T21:57:52Z 2019-08-02 2019-12 This project explores how women who live on a southern California reservation of the Kumeyaay Nation experience and respond to violence. Using a structural violence lens (Galtung 1969) enables a wider view of the definition of violence to include anything that limits an individual’s capabilities. Because the project used an inductive research method, the focus widened a study of intimate partner and family violence to the restrictions caused by the reservation itself, the dispute over membership and inclusion, and health issues that cause a decrease in life expectancy. From 2012 to 2018, I visited the reservation to participate in activities and interviewed 19 residents. Through my interactions, I found that women deploy resiliency strategies in support of the traditional meaning of Ipai/Tipai. This Kumeyaay word translates to “the people” to indicate that those who are participating are part of the community. By privileging the participants’ understanding of belonging, I found three levels of strategies, which I named inter-resiliency (within oneself), intra-resiliency (within the family or reservation) and inter-resiliency (within the large community of Kumeyaay or Native Americans across the country), but all levels exist within the strength gained from being part of the Ipai/Tipai. Sociological contributions include a richer description of the lived experiences of southern California Kumeyaay, agency of Native American women despite constraints of living on a reservation, and mechanisms associated with excess death among Native Americans. This dissertation attempts to encourage a centering of the participants so that strategies for interactions that will be more meaningful and effective. Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2020-02-28 without embargo terms The student, Rebecca Morrow, accepted the attached license on 2019-07-26 at 14:36. DSpace SAF Submission Ingestion Package generated from Vireo submission #14402 on 2020-02-28 at 17:10:57 Made available in DSpace on 2020-03-02T21:57:52Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 MORROW-DISSERTATION-2019.pdf: 2517793 bytes, checksum: 07e2a49ba95dadd2660a4699cc3a5a04 (MD5) LICENSE.txt: 4211 bytes, checksum: 18d9f08495a7069517a9598bab469d36 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2019-08-02 application/pdf http://hdl.handle.net/2142/106134 en Copyright 2019 Rebecca L. Morrow Structural violence violence against women gender intersectionality ethnography Native American studies indigenous studies resiliency and resistance strategies “That’s why we always fight back”: Structural violence and women’s responses on a Native American reservation text text Sociology Sociology University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Dissertation Ph.D.