NARF Blog

Michigan Tribes Ask Court to Overturn Line 5 Tunnel Permit

The Bay Mills Indian Community, Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians, Little Traverse Bay Band of Odawa Indians, and Nottawaseppi Huron Band of the Potawatomi filed notice on December 22, 2023, that they will appeal the Michigan Public Service Commission’s (MPSC) recent approval of a permit for Canadian oil giant Enbridge to build the Line 5 tunnel project beneath the Straits of Mackinac.

Subsistence Fishing Rights Protected in Alaska

A News Release from Our Client the Association of Village Council Presidents: The Federal District Court for the District of Alaska has ruled in favor of the United States,

Wyoming Court Affirms Treaty Rights

On March 28, 2024, the U.S. District Court for the District of Wyoming upheld the ability of Crow Tribe members to exercise their treaty-reserved right to hunt in the Bighorn

Defending Food Security and Native Way of Life

The State of Alaska filed a lawsuit against a federal agency for granting a life-saving emergency subsistence hunt to the Organized Village of Kake during a time of global food chain supply issues and intense food scarcity...

EPA Takes Action to Stop Pebble Mine

Today, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued a “Recommended Determination” detailing potential Clean Water Act protections for Bristol Bay that could address the threat...

Stand Strong with the Bay Mills Indian Community to Protect Treaty Rights and the Straits of Mackinac

Enbridge Energy wants to build a tunnel under the Great Lakes at the Straits of Mackinac, a place the Bay Mills Indian Community and other Anishinaabe peoples consider sacred.

Preserving Iizhik Gwats’an Gwandaii Goodlit

The Neets’ąįį Gwich’in and their work to protect the Arctic Refuge Caribou photo courtesy of Florian Schulz. In 2017, the Congress passed the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act.

Long past time for Alaska Tribes to have voting seats at every management table

A statement from our client, the Bering Sea Elders Group, and their Western and Interior Alaska partners (January 27, 2022). In the face of devastating multi-species,

A New Model for Tribal Co-Management and Indigenous-Led Research and Economic Development in the Pribilof Islands Marine Ecosystem

NARF client, Aleut Community of St. Paul Island (ACSPI) is announcing today the Pribilof Islands Marine Ecosystem (PRIME) Initiative, a designated, co-managed marine

Crow Tribe Hunting Rights Protected

Princess at 2018 Crow Fair The Crow Tribe secured recognition of its hunting territory in the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1851 and secured the right of its members to hunt within

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