Justice for the Lakota People
No Concentration Camps!
The South Florida Detention Facility, colloquially known as “Alligator Alcatraz,” would be better termed “Alligator Auschwitz." It doesn’t have gas chambers, but make no mistake: this abomination meets the dictionary definition of a concentration camp. Every compassionate American should be ashamed that a nation which once helped defeat fascism has failed to learn one of the most important lessons of its past. Don’t let the USA become a fascist state. Tell your state’s governor and attorney general to stop the building of concentration camps.
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Winning Lakota Justice
For over a decade, we’ve been standing strong with the Lakota to counteract treaty violations, protect sovereignty, and confront systemic racism. We're helping to safeguard sacred lands and water, end the epidemic of children being removed from their families and traditions, and amplify Native voices.
- February 18, 2025
Leonard Peltier is Free!
After nearly five decades of unjust incarceration, years of advocacy from many quarters, and the submittal of more than 20,000 petitions to the White House from Lakota Law supporters, Native political prisoner Leonard Peltier is freed by President Joe Biden. A big wopila to everyone who took action!
- December 1, 2024
Lakota Law Moves to Full Indigenous Leadership Under the Sacred Defense Fund
In a move to fully embody the Indigenous agency the organization champions, the Lakota People's Law Project separates from its original non-profit home at the Romero Institute to a new home under Sacred Defense Fund. We remain ever grateful to the good people at Romero for giving birth to our program, and we pledge to continue fighting for Indigenous and environmental justice under the guidance of our Indigenous board and executives.
- July 3, 2024
Lakota Law Launches the Sacred Defense National Parks & Monuments Initiative
Lakota Law launches the Sacred Defense National Parks & Monuments Initiative to benefit tribal nations whose homelands are occupied by national parks and monuments. Visiting the land? Help the people!
- June 15, 2023
U.S. Supreme Court Upholds the Indian Child Welfare Act!
In a huge victory for Native families and sovereignty, the U.S. Supreme Court rejects a challenge to the Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA)! Lakota Law is grateful for the decision and to the hundreds of thousands of supporters who took action to protect ICWA. https://www.npr.org/2023/06/15...
- April 28, 2023
Farewell to a Founder!
After nearly 20 years with Lakota Law, legendary activist and organization co-founder Madonna Thunder Hawk rides off into the sunset. We'll miss her warm spirit every day!
- September 22, 2022
Standing Rock and Lakota Law Launch Rez the Vote 2022
It's time to get out the Native Vote in 2022! Through our innovative Rezball3 nation-to-nation basketball tournament on Oct. 22-23, we're getting tribal nations together and to the polls. It's an exciting, first-of-it's kind event, to be live-streamed at give.lakotalaw.org.
- May 26, 2022
A Big Win for Native Voting Rights
A federal judge in South Dakota ruled in our favor that the state has repeatedly violated the National Voter Registration Act (NVRA). The judgment in this case, in which Lakota Law is a plaintiff, is a giant step forward in the battle to make sure Native voices are properly heard at the ballot box — especially in a state where Native Peoples make up nine percent of the population.
- March 2, 2022
Army meets with Great Sioux Nation to Discuss DAPL
Tribal input is finally asked for by U.S. government officials.
- February 28, 2022
Supreme Court Takes Up ICWA Case
Justices are expected to hear arguments on whether to uphold the Indian Child Welfare Act this fall.
- September 17, 2021
Big Oil Lawyers and Four States Including Texas Challenge the Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA)
If the U.S. Supreme Court overturns this critical law, it could be the first domino in a series of events that ultimately threaten tribal sovereignty.