Indian Child Welfare Act

September 25, 2015

Last week, NARF filed an amici curiae (friend of the court) brief in the United States District Court for the...

August 24, 2015

The Native American Rights Fund has a long history of working to enforce and uphold the requirements of the Indian...

July 9, 2015

In 1978, Congress passed the Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA) in an effort to address the soaring rates at which...

May 13, 2015

On March 20, 2015, the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) issued proposed regulations guiding the application of the Indian Child...

May 7, 2014

Last week NARF joined the National Indian Child Welfare Association (NICWA), the National Congress of American Indians (NCAI), and the...

April 11, 2014

This week NARF attorneys participated in the Federal Bar Association’s 2014 Indian Law Conference at the Pueblo of Pojoaque in...

February 4, 2014

The Native American Rights Fund (NARF) has joined with a coalition of other national Native organizations in requesting that the...

October 11, 2013

In consultation with our client, Angel Smith, the attorney appointed by the Cherokee Nation courts to represent the best interests...

August 1, 2013

On July 31, the Native American Rights Fund filed a complaint in the United States District Court in South Carolina...

July 24, 2013

The South Carolina Supreme Court ruled today to deny the appeal filed by Dusten Brown and the Cherokee Nation of...