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Answers to the most common questions we hear
In early 1976, NARF filed a brief on behalf of the Northern Cheyenne Tribe of Montana regarding the adoption of Indian children by non-Indian families.
For many tribes, the right to hunt, fish, and harvest continues to be important to tribal subsistence and livelihood. Since its inception, NARF has considered these rights to be of paramount importance. Click on the link to learn about four cases in 1978 that illustrate the diversity and importance of tribal claims.
The Native American Rights Fund is governed by a board of directors that is made up of representatives from thirteen Native American tribes throughout the country. You can learn more about the NARF board, staff, and attorneys on our website.
The first chairman of the NARF Board of Directors (formerly called the Steering Committee) was Charles Lohah, Osage.
April 1994, President Clinton became the first President to summon leaders of all federally recognized tribes to meet underscoring their new stature in dealings with the federal government. Clinton directed his administration to treat them with the same deference given to state governments.
About 59 percent of tribes have a tribal judicial system. NARF supports the Indigenous Peacemaking Initiative and the ability of tribe's to define their own culturally based forms of justice.
The Ford Foundation helped to develop and establish the Native American Rights Fund through two grants it made to California Indian Legal Services, under which NARF was started as a special national project in June 1970.
NARF provided legal assistance for the 1971 Inupiat struggle for self-determination by providing research and comments on the litigation strategies used in other suits filed by oil companies to limit the borough taxing power.
The number of Native students enrolled in colleges and universities has more than doubled in the past 30 years. NARF is committed to the professional development of new attorneys in the field of Indian law with a competitive law clerk program.
In late 1971, NARF attorneys, Yvonne Knight and Charles Wilkinson, met with the Menominee Tribe to draft a bill to restore the trust relationship and tax free status of Menominee lands. These were the first of more than 1400 man-hours they were to work on the Menominee Restoration Act during the next two years.
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