Native Americans Rights Fund

The Native American Rights Fund (NARF) "is a non-profit 501c(3) organization that provides legal representation and technical assistance to Indian tribes, organizations and individuals nationwide - a constituency that often lacks access to the justice system. NARF focuses on applying existing laws and treaties to guarantee that national and state governments live up to their legal obligations."

"In 1970 with funding from the Ford Foundation, California Indian Legal Services -- one of the federally-funded legal services programs serving California Indians – implemented a pilot project to provide legal services to Indians on a national level. That project became known as the Native American Rights Fund (NARF)."


 * John E. Echohawk, Executive Director

Directors
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 * John Gonzales, Chair, San Ildefonso Pueblo
 * Jaime Barrientoz, Vice Chair, Ottawa/Chippewa
 * Andrew J. Bowers, Jr., Seminole Tribe of Florida
 * Delia Carlyle, AK Chin
 * Elbridge Coochise, Hopi
 * Billy Frank, Nisqually Tribe
 * James Roan Gray, Osage
 * Karlene Hunter, Oglala Lakota
 * Lydia Olympic, Igiugig
 * Kunani Nihipali (Native Hawaiian)
 * Paul Ninham, Wisconsin Oneida
 * Anthony Pico, Viejas Band of Kumeyaay Indians
 * Woody Widmark, Sitka Tribe

National Support Committee
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 * Owanah Anderson (Choctaw)
 * Edward Asner
 * Katrina McCormick Barnes
 * David Brubeck
 * Ben Nighthorse Campbell (Northern Cheyenne)
 * Wallace Coffey (Comanche Nation)
 * Ada Deer (Menominee)
 * Harvey A. Dennenberg
 * Michael Driver
 * Richard Dysart
 * Lucille A. Echohawk (Pawnee)
 * Louise Erdrich (Turtle Mountain Chippewa)
 * Jane Fonda
 * James Garner
 * Sy Gomberg
 * Carol Hayward (Fond du Lac)
 * Richard A. Hayward (Mashantucket Pequot)
 * John Heller
 * Emily Heller-Rhys
 * Charles R. Klewin
 * Nancy A. Klewin
 * Wilma Mankiller (Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma)
 * Chris E. McNeil, Jr. (Tlingit-Nisga'a)
 * Billy Mills (Oglala Lakota)
 * N. Scott Momaday (Kiowa)
 * Clinton Pattea
 * Amado Pena, Jr. (Yaqui/Chicano)
 * Pernell Roberts
 * Marc Rudick
 * Pam Rudick
 * Leslie Marmon Silko (Laguna Pueblo)
 * Connie Stevens
 * Ernie Stevens, Jr.
 * Anthony L. Strong (Tlingit-Klukwan)
 * Maria Tallchief (Osage)
 * Andrew Teller (Isleta Pueblo)
 * Verna Teller (Isleta Pueblo)
 * Studs Terkel
 * Tenaya Torres (Chiricahua Apache)
 * Richard Trudell (Santee Sioux)
 * Rebecca Tsosie (Pasqua Yaqui)
 * Thomas N. Tureen
 * Tzo-Nah
 * Aíne Ungar
 * William C. Wantland (Seminole)
 * W. Richard West, Jr. (Southern Cheyenne)
 * Mary T. Wynne (Rosebud Sioux)

Contact

 * Web: http://www.narf.org

Related SourceWatch

 * First Nations Development Institute