Native Rights Are Making it in the Movies

We are excited to let you know about two recently released mini-documentaries that feature NARF and some of the important social justice work that you make possible.

As part of the Be IllumiNative campaign, Paramount Network recently sent Gil Birmingham, who plays Chairman Thomas Rainwater on their Yellowstone series, to visit the Fort Belknap Indian Community, meet their President Andy Werk, and learn about the tribe’s efforts to stop the building of the Keystone XL Pipeline. Watch his journey.

Meanwhile, Public Square Media visited North Dakota to see how activists, attorneys, and voters banded together to defend access to the ballot box. Watch their inspiring story.

 

New CU Fellow Joins Project to Implement UN Declaration

A warm welcome to Danielle Lazore-Thompson, the new American Indian Law Program Fellow at the University of Colorado Law School. In this role, Danielle will be an integral part of the joint NARF-CU Law project working to achieve domestic implementation of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples in the United States.

She also will assist in the collaboration between NARF and CU Law related to on-going negotiations at the World Intellectual Property Organization for the protection of indigenous peoples’ traditional knowledge, traditional cultural expressions, and genetic resources. Danielle (pictured third from left with CU and NARF staff) is a member of the St. Regis Mohawk Tribe and a graduate of Tufts University and Cornell Law School.