NARF Cases and Projects Archive - Page 2 of 16 - Native American Rights Fund

Status: Active

Tribes Protect Baaj Nwaavjo I’tah Kukveni Monument (Arizona State Legislature v. Biden)

The Havasupai and Hopi Tribes, represented by the Native American Rights Fund, along with the Navajo Nation, seek to defend the designation of the Baaj Nwaavjo I’tah Kukveni - Ancestral Footprints of the Grand Canyon National Monument.

Status: Active

Protecting Oak Flat and Tribal Religious Practices (Apache Stronghold v. U.S.)

Tribal Nations and Native organizations ask the courts to recognize that Religious Freedom Restoration Act protections do prevent a foreign mining company from destroying a sacred place the Apache call Chí’chil Biłdagoteel, which translates into English as “Oak Flat.”

Status: Active

Defending a Majority Native-Voter Subdistrict in North Dakota (Walen v. Burgum)

Individual voters in North Dakota and the MHA Nation joined the Walen v. Burgum lawsuit to prevent a majority-Native-voter legislative subdistrict from being eliminated.

Status: Active

Sacred Places Protection

NARF completed a project that explored new Native-led approaches to protecting sacred places.

Status: Active

North Dakota Redistricting (Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians v. Michael Howe)

Individual voters, the Spirit Lake Tribe and the Turtle Mountain Chippewa proved North Dakota’s 2021 legislative map unlawfully diluted Native American voting rights.

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