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The Tribal Alliance Against Frauds (TAAF) is a non-profit organization based in the United States that is dedicated to exposing individuals and organizations that have falsely claimed to be American Indian, as well as to educating the public on the harms to American Indian people and sovereignty caused by identity fraud.
The Native American Rights Fund (NARF) is a non-profit organization, based in Boulder, Colorado, that uses existing laws and treaties to ensure that U.S. state governments and the U.S. federal government live up to their legal obligations. NARF also "provides legal representation and technical assistance to Indian tribes, organizations and ...
The Jack Abramoff Indian lobbying scandal was a United States political scandal exposed in 2005; it related to fraud perpetrated by political lobbyists Jack Abramoff, Ralph E. Reed Jr., Grover Norquist and Michael Scanlon on Native American tribes who were seeking to develop casino gambling on their reservations.
Reva Stewart and several other Native American women living in Phoenix operate an online network to help find missing people they call “our relatives,” posting details of those lost on social ...
Here’s a copy of their letter: Peltier has been in prison ever since the U.S. government accused him of murdering two FBI agents in a 1975 shoot-out on a reservation in South Dakota.
This resulted in the Indian Arts and Crafts Act of 1990 (IACA), which made fraudulently selling work as American Indian–made, Native American–made, or created by a specific tribe a felony. [6] Penalties for violating this law can result in fines up to $250,000 and/or prison terms up to five years. [ 6 ]
In the United States, tribal disenrollment is a process by which a Native American individual loses citizenship or the right to belong within a Native American tribe. [ 1 ] Banishment and ostracization have historically been a means to punish wrongdoers and maintain social cohesion in Native American tribes. [ 2 ]
This is a list of U.S. Supreme Court cases involving Native American Tribes.Included in the list are Supreme Court cases that have a major component that deals with the relationship between tribes, between a governmental entity and tribes, tribal sovereignty, tribal rights (including property, hunting, fishing, religion, etc.) and actions involving members of tribes.