Tribal Consultation on Protecting the Native American Vote
From the White House: On March 7, 2021, the President issued an Executive Order on Promoting Access to Voting. The...
Civil Rights (Voting Rights, Juries, Census)
South Dakota Failing to Offer Voter Registration
On July 8, 2021, the Rosebud Sioux Tribe and Oglala Sioux Tribe amended their complaint to include additional plaintiffs against...
Supreme Court Decision Fails to Protect Native American Voting Rights
UPDATE: On July 1, 2021, the U.S. Supreme Court released a decision in Brnovich v. DNC that upheld two Arizona...
Anniversary of the Indian Citizenship Act, June 2, 1924
On June 2, 1924, in exchange for the right to tax Native people, the U.S. government unilaterally extended U.S. citizenship...
Voting Rights Working Group on Voter Suppression Efforts
Protecting Against the Onslaught of Voter Suppression Efforts in the States: A Statement from the Voting Rights Working Group As...
New Montana Laws Restrict Native Voter Participation
On May 17, 2021, the Native American Rights Fund (NARF), American Civil Liberties Union, and ACLU of Montana challenged two...
Bring the Voices and Values of Native Americans to the Table
As Americans, whether we live in the shadow of the Rockies, the Mississippi watershed, or anywhere else in this country,...
Counting All Persons in the US Census
This week, NARF gave the US Supreme Court a little history lesson, pushing back against those who argue that unauthorized...
A Conversation on Voting Rights and Indian Country
In this first-of-its-kind online conversation, NARF legal experts Natalie Landreth (Chickasaw) and Jacqueline De León (Isleta Pueblo) discuss the historic...
After Lawsuit From Blackfeet Nation, County Agrees to Satellite Office on Reservation
Three days after the Blackfeet Nation brought a federal lawsuit against Pondera County arguing that the county was violating the...
