NARF Blog

NCAI, NARF, And AFN Honor MLK, Jr. By Continuing To Fight For Full Voting Rights For All Native People

WASHINGTON, DC – As the nation honors the life and works of Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., the National Congress of American Indians (NCAI), the Native American Rights

Pamunkey Receives Preliminary Recognition

The Native American Rights Fund is proud to have represented the Pamunkey Indian Tribe of Virginia in their decades-long struggle for federal recognition as a tribe.

NARF signs on to letter encouraging President Obama to embrace a carbon-reducing clean energy strategy rather than an all of the above energy strategy

Last week NARF, along with over a dozen other organizations, signed on to a letter to President Obama encouraging him to embrace a carbon-reducing clean energy strategy

NARF Staff Attorneys Richard Guest and Joel Williams honored by Native American Bar Association of D.C.

Earlier this month NARF Staff Attorneys Richard Guest and Joel Williams were honored by the Native American Bar Association of D.C. for their work in Indian country.

NARF Staff Attorney Brett Lee Shelton interviewed about NARF’s boarding school work on American Indian Living

This week NARF Staff Attorney Brett Lee Shelton and National Native American Boarding School Coalition President Denise LaJimodiere were interviewed on the radio show

NARF Staff Attorney Kim Gottschalk to speak at Federal Recognition Conference

Later this week NARF Staff Attorney Kim Gottschalk will speak at the Arizona State University conference Who Decides You’re Real? Fixing the Federal Recognition Process.

Indian Law and Order Commission releases final report

Yesterday the Indian Law and Order Commission released its final report and recommendations—A Roadmap For Making Native America Safer—as required by the Tribal Law

NARF co-authors amicus brief in Michigan v. Bay Mills Indian Community

Have you been following the important tribal sovereign immunity case, Michigan v. Bay Mills Indian Community, which will be heard by the United States Supreme Court this

Native American Rights Fund files amicus curiae brief on behalf of National Congress of American Indians in Jim Thorpe case

Earlier this week NARF Staff Attorney Matthew L. Campbell filed an amicus curiae brief on behalf of the National Congress of American Indians (NCAI) in the Jim Thorpe case.

NARF Staff Attorney Heather Kendall-Miller testifies at Senate Committee on Indian Affairs field hearing

This past weekend NARF Staff Attorney Heather Kendall-Miller testified at a Senate Committee on Indian Affairs field hearing on the health, food security, and viability

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