Lakota People's Law Project is an Indigenous‑led nonprofit legal and advocacy organization that defends Lakota and other Native nations' sovereignty, protects sacred lands and water, upholds Native family and child welfare (including enforcement of the Indian Child Welfare Act), and pursues environmental and social justice through litigation, policy advocacy, media, and grassroots organizing.
Tribal sovereignty and self-determination; enforcement of Indian Child Welfare Act and Native child welfare; environmental and anti-extraction policies (opposition to pipelines, mining, fossil-fuel infrastructure); protection of sacred sites and land return; First Amendment/protest rights; Native voting rights; addressing Missing and Murdered Indigenous Relatives (MMIR).
Primarily individual donations and membership fees, philanthropic grants, and program revenue; fiscally sponsored and administered through the Sacred Defense Fund.
Sacred Defense Fund (fiscal sponsor), Romero Institute (former fiscal sponsor), LastRealIndians, Native American Youth Organization (NAYO); frequent collaborators include Earthjustice, NDN Collective, Black Hills Clean Water Alliance; leadership includes Chase Iron Eyes, Tokata Iron Eyes, and Dov Korff-Korn.
Non-profit (501(c)(3) public charity); Indigenous-led legal advocacy organization (fiscally housed under the Sacred Defense Fund)
