Native American Rights Fund
Jason Searle is a staff attorney at the Native American Rights Fund, focusing on high-profile litigation and advocacy for tribal existence, self-determination, and Indigenous rights since August 2022. Previously, Searle served as a senior attorney in the Litigation Unit of the Navajo Nation Department of Justice, where responsibilities included independent case handling from August 2018 to August 2022. Additional experience includes roles as an attorney involving trial and appellate litigation, a faculty research assistant at the University of Michigan Law School, and a notes editor for the Michigan Journal of Environmental and Administrative Law. Searle's legal career also features clerkships with the Native American Rights Fund and the Little Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa Indians Tribal Court. Searle holds a Juris Doctor degree from the University of Michigan Law School and a Bachelor of Science in Sociology from Brigham Young University.
Native American Rights Fund
Since 1970, the Native American Rights Fund (NARF) has provided specialized legal assistance to Indian tribes, organizations, and individuals nationwide who might otherwise have gone without adequate representation. NARF has successfully asserted and defended the most important rights of Indians and tribes in hundreds of major cases and has achieved significant results in such critical areas as tribal sovereignty, treaty rights, natural resource protection, and Indian education. NARF is a non-profit 501c(3) organization that focuses on guaranteeing that federal and state governments live up to their legal obligations. In 2020, NARF released a groundbreaking report on the obstacles to political participation experienced by Native voters. Learn more and get the report and latest actions at https://vote.narf.org/