Have you been following the anti-ICWA litigation filed in various federal courts last year? The ICWA Defense Project has published an updated memo explaining the litigation
Have you been following the anti-ICWA litigation filed earlier this summer? The ICWA Defense Project has published an updated memo explaining the litigation and providing
Last week, NARF filed an amici curiae (friend of the court) brief in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia on behalf of the National Congress
The Native American Rights Fund has a long history of working to enforce and uphold the requirements of the Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA). That work continues.
In 1978, Congress passed the Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA) in an effort to address the soaring rates at which state courts and child welfare agencies were removing Native
On March 20, 2015, the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) issued proposed regulations guiding the application of the Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA) for state courts and public
Alaska Supreme Court
This morning, July 18, 2014, the Alaska Supreme Court issued its opinion in Simmonds v. Parks. The Court ruled the Minto Tribal Court’s order terminating
Last week NARF joined the National Indian Child Welfare Association (NICWA), the National Congress of American Indians (NCAI), and the Association on American Indian
This week NARF attorneys participated in the Federal Bar Association’s 2014 Indian Law Conference at the Pueblo of Pojoaque in New Mexico. NARF Staff Attorney
The Native American Rights Fund (NARF) has joined with a coalition of other national Native organizations in requesting that the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) Civil