Can you imagine what it would be like for someone to come to where you live, take it over, relocated you to a place not of your choice, and in a place with no clean water at all during times of the year?
You turn the faucet on at the kitchen sink and nothing comes out. You cannot shower. You cannot even flush your toilet. Or if water comes out, it is not really recognizable as water. This is life for suffering people in third-world countries like Haiti and the Sudan … and it’s what’s faced by some North Americans across the United States of America.
Yes, the fight for water takes place right now and right here in the United States of America, where clean, abundant running water is available to virtually every single person
How can this be? How can Tribes and Indian people be denied water? And how can you help this awful wrong?
You can become a NATIVE AMERICAN RIGHTS FUND, NARF Member by supporting their work to ensure that promises made by the United States government to Native Americans are honored and fulfilled. Simply copy this donation form and put your name and address in the white square.
If this is something you would like to do, you can send the following petitions to President Trump, United States Committee on Indian Affairs, and the Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum to do what is legally required to preserve water for Native American Tribes, and to fully fund Indian water settlements which are the moral and legal obligation of the United States.
From Oregon to California to Kansas and across the Midwestern United States, many of our native brothers and sisters have been fighting for more than 30 years to secure the water to sufficient water to make their reservations liveable homelands.
But in state after states, non-Indian groups developed along most (if not all) of the water and left the Tribes literally high and dry. And for decades the federal government did nothing to protect the Tribal interests. In fact, the government provided huge subsidies to develop along the water for use by others, to the exclusion of the Tribes. That sadly continues to this day in too many places.
That’s why NARF must fight to protect the rights of Tribes and their people. Every day their staff devotes all their efforts to defend and promote the legal rights of Native Americans on issues essential to their Tribal sovereignty, their natural resources, and their human rights.
The NARF relies on the financial support of compassion and concerned people like most of humanity to help them win battles for justice and equality.
If this subject touches your heart, you may print out the petitions below and include your name on the line with your donation if you choose to donate. Add your mailing address under the thick black line and send it to:
NATIVE AMERICAN RIGHTS FUND PO Box 2013 Milford, NH 03055-9934
As the oldest and largest Native led Indian Rights nonprofit organization in the country, NARF stands firm in its commitment to fight for the sovereignty and rights of Indian Nations and Native peoples. NARF is a modern warrior society that puts itself between those who can’t fight for themselves and the forces that try to undermine the rights of Indian cuntry.
Cases take years to resolve. Laws take decades to enact. And implementation and enforcement of court decrees and laws is a lifelong effort. It’s an expensive proposition, as you can imagine.
But when something as basic to human life, something as sacred to these Tribes as water is under threat, then they do all they can, no matter the cost.
Think about this:
Countless Tribes face an array of health and developmental risks as a result of environmental problems including surface and groundwater contamination, illegal dumping, hazardous waste disposal, air pollution, mining wastes and habitat destruction.
Over the past quarter century, the United States has spent billions of dollars on programs and institutions to protect human health and the natural environment.
Yet, Tribes have been systematically denied the resources to develop even the most fundamental environmental policies and programs for the protection of the air, water, lands and their people.
Protecting and preserving the natural resources and lands, and the inherent rights of Tribal peoples to access and use them, is one of the top priorities for NARF today. Your support is absolutely essential to gain victory.
Native Americans have waited and waited for the government to act as it should. But that hasn’t happened. And the people are suffering because of it.
With your generous help NRAF can continue to fight for countless Tribes across the country wo rely on NARF to advocate for water rights on their behalf.
NARF says that they will not stop until justice is done and the people of these reservations have water that is rightfully, legally, and morally theirs.