Honoring Earth Day: Protections for Tribal homelands and sacred places
This Earth Day, we celebrate a recent win for Baaj Nwaavjo I’tah Kukveni (Ancestral Footprints of the Grand Canyon National Monument), established through sustained
Tribal Engagement in FERC Hydropower Licensing
Although hydroelectric energy has long been touted as a “clean” energy, hydropower projects have devastated Tribal Nations’ treaty-protected rights and resources—particularly salmon and other endangered fish species runs. This overview provides a starting point for Tribal Nations seeking to engage.
Tribal Water Institute
In early 2024, NARF launched the Tribal Water Institute, a first-of-its-kind project designed to increase the capacity of Tribal Nations to engage in water law issues and policy reform.
A win for Tribal sovereignty
In a significant victory for Tribal sovereignty, the United States Supreme Court today denied cert in RunItOneTime LLC v. United States, a challenge to the constitutionality
Protecting Tribal waters in Alaska
With a wealth of unappropriated water, Alaska is uniquely situated to protect Tribal water resources and avoid over allocation mistakes made by states in the western United States. Because of the abundance of water, fights over the amount of allocated water in Alaska rarely occur.
Tribes Move to Defend EPA’s Tribal Water Rights Rule (State of Idaho v. EPA)
Tribal Nations are defending their water rights and the EPA’s Tribal Reserved Rights Rule, after 12 states filed a lawsuit to dismantle it.
Tribal interests in the future of the Colorado River
The Colorado River Basin is home to thirty federally recognized Tribal Nations, each with unique histories, cultures, and relationships to the Colorado River and its tributaries.
Tribes Move to Defend EPA’s Tribal Water Rights Rule
Seven Tribal Nations seek to fend off attack by 12 states
Seven Tribal Nations, represented by Earthjustice and the Native American Rights Fund (NARF), filed a motion
Judge Shanlyn Park Confirmed to U.S. District Court for the District of Hawai’i
On November 30, 2023, the Native American Rights Fund (NARF), the National Congress of American Indians (NCAI), and the National Native American Bar Association (NNABA)
Utility Cooperative Again Seeks to Undermine Tribal Jurisdiction
A Montana utility cooperative has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to review a lawsuit the cooperative lost to the Crow Tribe of Montana and its members. In Big Horn County Electric
