Legal Reform Grants

Legal Reform Grants

Program Focus: Advances ideas and policies granting Indian landowners and tribes greater control of their land assets by reforming the legal and administrative systems.

Overview:
Some of the most crippling systemic barriers to Indian land use and control – fractionated ownership, checkerboarding, abuse of the federal trust relationship – are due to complex and unjust regulations, court rulings and laws involving Indian land. Some of the most shortsighted, racist and damaging federal Indian policies, such as the policy of allotment, were devised in the 1800s when most people believed that Native Americans would either disappear or assimilate into American society. Many of these policies, and their devastating effects on Indian people, remain today.

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Contact: 651-766-8999