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.
Winnebago Repatriation Request to Carlisle Boarding School (Winnebago v. Department of Army)
Background:
The history of the Carlisle Indian Industrial School represents the haunting legacy of Indian boarding schools, institutions which were weaponized against
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.
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.
Protecting Oak Flat and Tribal Religious Practices (Apache Stronghold v. U.S.)
Tribal Nations and Native organizations ask the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit 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.”
