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21 NARF Legal Rev. 1 (1996)

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   Native American Rights Fund
Volume 21, No. 1


REVIEW

                     Winter/Spring 1996


NARF OBSERVES  y  • yy•



25TH ANNIVERSARY


       Looking back over the past
 25 years, NARF has represented
 over 190 Tribes in 31 states in
 such areas as tribal restoration
 and recognition, land claims,
 hunting and fishing rights, the
 protection of Indian religious
   ,edom, and many others. In
 addition to the great strides made     r
 in achieving justice on behalf of
 Native American people, perhaps
 NARF's greatest distinguishing
 attribute has been its availability
 to bring excellent, highly ethical
 legal representation to dispos-
 sessed Tribes. The survival and
 strengthened sovereignty of the
 nation's federally recognized tribes
 are due, in no small measure, to
 the battles waged and won by the
 Native American Rights Fund.
                              erty, the Office of Economic
The Need For NARF             Opportunity launched govern-
      In the 1960's the United ment-funded legal services pro-
States government adopted new grams throughout the nation to
policies and programs in a wide-  provide legal representation to the
spread effort to address some of  disadvantaged. Those programs
the social ills affecting the coun-  which were set up on or near
try. As part of this War on Pov-  Indian reservations and large


                                      N A     LLAL
                                      NAktURERVIEW


Indian communities came to
realize that the legal problems
being brought forth by their
Indian clients were, for the most
part, governed and controlled by a
little known area of law - Indian
Law - that was driven by trea-
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