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
Tribal Nations disproportionately affected by federal funding freeze
A statement from NARF Executive Director John Echohawk:
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,
An MLK Letter from our Executive Director John Echohawk
This January 20 we recognize Martin Luther King Day. It is a day on which many in the United States remember and honor Dr. King’s work and the long and ongoing fight for civil rights and social justice that he helped fos
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...
