Lynette Greybull says she used to live on the streets when she was 17, but was lucky to find friends who took her in and prevented her from falling into sex trafficking. As the founder of Not Our Native Daughters,  Greybull says since there are few opportunities on the reservation, young girls are lured into trafficking, often through social media.Greybull said traffickers prey on girls, mostly, many of whom already have been sexually abused, don’t have decent family support or are in the foster care system. Native American children enter foster care at twice the rate of all children in the U.S., according to a Government Accountability Office study. He said many of these young people have to fight for shelter, food and protection.“And you have someone come along that takes you out to eat, that gets your hair and nails done, gives you a phone, gives you shoes, clothes and treats you well, is  almost like  a hero  sent to you,” The National Congress of American Indians says Native Americans are one of the most vulnerable populations to sex trafficking because of the significant poverty rates, high numbers of runaway youth, and low levels of law enforcement.. This year Navajo leaders uncovered cases of sex trafficking on their reservations, but they didn’t have a way to fight it. They have now passed a law against the crime and other tribes across the United States are following suit.Lisa Heth from the Pathfinder Center, a refuge for human trafficking victims in South Dakota, says that cases of trafficking are severely underreported on reservations because victims fear reprisal. To read the entire article, click here http://www.fronterasdesk.org/content/10912/native-americans-are-some-most-vulnerable-sex-trafficking