After more than a hundred years of battling the federal government for recognition, the Little Shell Tribe of Chippewa Indians was legislatively recognized by Congress.
NARF represented forty tribes who successfully sought trust fund accountings. Such accountings never have been provided by the federal government, which is the trustee.
In 2016, the Organization of American States adopted the American Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples to build upon the 2007 UN Declaration.