Natalie Landreth

Natalie recently co-founded the Tribal Public Lands Alliance, an organization focused on the intersection of Indian law and public lands law. She recently left her role as Deputy Solicitor for Land Resources at the Department of the Interior, where she advised Secretary Haaland, the Deputy Secretary, the Solicitor and Director of the Bureau of Land Management on issues related to America’s public lands. In this role, she provided daily counsel to the BLM, the largest land manager in the United States with one sixth of its land mass. She worked directly with the White House on public lands issues, including leading the legal team for BLM monuments and withdrawals, and counseled the agency on incorporation of Indigenous Knowledge and co-stewardship in federal lands management. Before joining DOI, she spent nearly 20 years at the Native American Rights Fund Anchorage office where she served as lead or co-lead litigator on more than 25 high-profile, high-impact federal and state cases. Her work included litigating the President’s revocation of the Bears Ears National Monument under the Antiquities Act and successfully challenging the Keystone XL Pipeline for violations of treaty rights and the National Environmental Policy Act. She received her J.D. from Harvard Law School and her B.A. magna cum laude from Harvard College. One of nine children, she is a citizen of the Chickasaw Nation of Oklahoma, Imatobby family.