Chase Iron Eyes

Chase Iron Eyes (Lakota, Standing Rock Sioux Tribe) is an attorney and Native American rights activist. He is also the founder of Last Real Indians, a media resource for original Indigenous content creating the New Indigenous Millennium. He is a Tribal judge, Staff Attorney, and a 7th Generation fund grant recipient. In addition, Chase is a spokesperson for the Black Hills Treaty Alliance, a board member of Honor the Treaties and of the Romero Institute, and a North Dakota advisor to the Bush Foundation.
Chase is also an Advocate for the unity meetings of the Oceti Sakowin, where all the Lakota tribes meet to identify solutions to the challenges they face in common.
=="Save the Black Hills"==
In 2012, Chase and Last Real Indians spearheaded the successful fundraising effort to buy back Pe Sla, one of the most sacred sites in the Black Hills. Akin to the Garden of Eden for the Lakota, its non-Native owners were going to sell it to developers. Chase and Last Real Indians raised $900,000 online, and helped raise the remaining $8.1 million from Lakota/Dakota Sioux tribes to buy the land back.
=="Bringing the Lakota Children Home"==
In November 2013, Chase went with The Lakota People's Law Project to Washington, D.C. to propose a solution to the high numbers of Native foster children in South Dakota. Lakota Law has accused the state of South Dakota of "blatantly violating" the Indian Child Welfare Act, and has called this "state kidnapping". Chase spoke on behalf of Oglala Sioux Tribe’s President Brian Brewer and Standing Rock Sioux Tribe’s Chairman David Archambault. Lakota Law’s proposal to re-direct federal funds away from South Dakota's Department of Social Services and towards new, tribal foster care programs was endorsed by the Department of Justice and the Department of the Interior. If successful, this historic initiative will be a victory for the Indian Child Welfare Act, tribal sovereignty and all Native American children. Their mission is to build a foundation for the renewal of Lakota families and culture.
=="Heating the Rez"==
In 2014, Chase and Last Real Indians started their most recent project, "Heating the Rez", after a Lakota elder froze to death because she could not afford the market-inflated price of propane heating. Having exceeded their online fundraising goal of $50,000, Chase and Last Real Indians will soon begin a pilot program that will heat 20 homes with new heating units that use wood pellets produced sustainably on the reservation, or "rez".
=="Kuwa Isnala"==
Chase Iron Eyes dedicates his life to the prosperity and success of his Native American peoples.

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