Native American Rights Fund
NEWS
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NARF News: September 2019

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 at
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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 at [link removed]


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.
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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.

 


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