NARF, Author at Native American Rights Fund

Welcome to The Headwaters Report!

Welcome to The Headwaters Report – a new digital blog site, bulletin, and source for Tribal water law information and resources. Every Tribal Nation should have free access to information necessary to advocate for and protect its water resources. Through The Headwaters Report, NARF intends to provide that to Indian Country.

Decades of unmitigated pollution caused losses that Teck Cominco should compensate

Columbia River Treaty Tribes filed a Ninth Circuit amicus brief in support of the Colville Tribes compensation for service loss...

Coming together for land co-managment

To close out 2024, NARF and First Nations Development Institute co-hosted a national conference entitled Shared Horizons: Navigating Tribal Co-Stewardship and Co-Management

A Warm Welcome for the New UN Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples

On January 13, 2025, The Implementation Project (TIP), Native American Rights Fund (NARF), and University of Colorado Law School hosted a welcome reception at NARF’s

Yes, Montana, disenfranchising Native voters violates the law

Native voters in Montana again successfully defend their rights as U.S. Supreme Court declined to review Montana Supreme Court decision.

Groups seek to intervene to protect voter rights

Update (January 20, 2025): President Trump revoked President Biden Executive Order no. 14019 on January 20, 2025, with Executive Order 14148. With this revocation,

North Dakota Native voting rights upheld by Supreme Court

The U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the lower court decision that preserves a North Dakota subdistrict that gives Mandan, Hidatsa, and Arikara Nation reservation voters a long-awaited opportunity to elect state representation.

MHA Nation and Native voters argue for protection from gerrymandering

Voters and the MHA Nation urged the U.S. Supreme Court to dismiss the lawsuit or to uphold the U.S. District Court’s ruling that found in favor the Tribal Nation...

Questions about Pembina Settlement Distribution?

On September 20, 2023, the Pembina Class Action Settlement Administrator began distribution of settlement proceeds to four Pembina Tribes (the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians, the Chippewa Cree Tribe of the Rocky Boy’s Reservation, the Little Shell Chippewa Tribe of Montana, and the White Earth Band of Minnesota Chippewa Indians) and more than 30,000 individual eligible settlement class members.

You made things better in 2024

We felt your support so strongly this year, and it made a big difference. Please find below just a few stories about your positive impact...

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