A federal judge has referred a dispute over millions of dollars of attorneys’ fees related to the $3.4 billion settlement of the Cobell class-action lawsuit to a special magistrate...

WASHINGTON – In the ongoing battle over millions of dollars in legal fees related to the pending $3.4 billion Cobell settlement, the Native American Rights Fund (NARF) has rebutted...

John Echohawk More than a dozen lawsuits are clogging federal and state courts in what Native American Rights Fund (NARF) Executive Director John Echohawk called “a judicially-crea...

UPDATED SEPTEMBER 13, 2012: Keith Harper, one of the principal lawyers who worked on the Cobell settlement, has provided ICTMN with new information that clarifies some of the incid...

WASHINGTON – In a July 30 notice filed by the lawyers for the plaintiffs of the $3.4 billion Cobell settlement, they chastised lawyers with the Native American Rights Fund (NARF) f...

WASHINGTON – The lawyers for the Indian plaintiffs in the $3.4 billion Cobell settlement have filed a notice in federal court that says they do not want lawyers with the Native Ame...

The Nez Perce Tribe recently made a hefty contribution to the Native American Rights Fund (NARF) for its role in a major trust fund lawsuit...

Following the March 31 announcement from the Church of Latter-day Saints, and confirmed by the Department of the Interior, that Larry Echo Hawk, Assistant Secretary of Indian Affai...

GREELEY, Colo. – Battles for Native sovereignty are increasingly complex...