Alyson White Eagle
Alyson White Eagle joined NARF in September 2024 as an inaugural Tribal Water Institute Fellow based in the Boulder office. As a Tribal Water Institute Fellow, Alyson
UN Framework Convention on Climate Change – Indigenous Caucus
Recognizing the threat of climate change to homelands and ways of life, the National Congress of American Indians joined climate change negotiations at the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.
Now Available: The Indigenous Peoples’ Guide to the United Nations
American Indians, Alaska Natives, and Native Hawaiians increasingly contend with rights violations concerning transboundary matters that cannot be resolved through federal-level advocacy alone. From climate change and repatriation to traditional knowledge...
Farewell to 2024 summer law clerks
Thank you to our summer law clerks for your exceptional service this summer. Your hard work, dedication, and fresh perspectives have been invaluable to our team. The NARF
Tribal Nations Stand with Bad River Band to Eject Enbridge from Reservation
Tribal Nations across the Great Lakes region asked the United States, as their treaty partner and ally, to break its silence and file a brief against the Enbridge Line 5 pipeline’s trespass on the Bad River Band’s land.
Protecting Bears Ears National Monument
Native nations have spent decades working to protect the sacred twin buttes shaped like the ears of a bear found in southeastern Utah.
Welcome to Summer Law Clerk and Siletz Winner, Alyson White Eagle-Sounding Sides!
Alyson White Eagle-SoundingSides is Northern Arapaho from the Wind River Reservation. She graduated from Wyoming Indian High School in Ethete, Wyoming, and went on
Defending Crow Tribe’s Right to Govern (Big Horn County Electric Cooperative v. Big Man)
The Crow Tribe is defending its right and responsibility to protect tribal citizens against a utility company that refuses to follow tribal law.
Preserving Iizhik Gwats’an Gwandaii Goodlit
The Neets’ąįį Gwich’in and their work to protect the Arctic Refuge
Caribou photo courtesy of Florian Schulz.
In 2017, the Congress passed the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act.
Bering Sea Elders Group
An alliance of thirty-nine Yup’ik and Inupiaq villages that seeks to protect the sensitive ecosystem of the Bering Sea, the subsistence lifestyle, and the sustainable communities that depend on it.
