Intertribal Council on Utility Policy explained

The Intertribal Council on Utility Policy, or Intertribal COUP, is a Native American nonprofit organization founded in 1994.^[1] It focuses on energy, telecommunications, and environmental issues affecting member tribes in North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska and Wyoming.

The fifteen tribal nations represented in COUP are:

• Cheyenne River
• Flandreau Santee
• Lower Brulé
• Mandan, Hidatsa, and Arikara Nations
• Northern Arapaho
• Omaha
• Rosebud Sioux
• Sisseton
• Spirit Lake Tribe
• Pine Ridge Sioux
• Standing Rock Sioux
• Yankton Sioux

Intertribal COUP owns a major stake in a company that markets carbon offsets and renewable energy credits and funds projects such as wind farms on Indian reservations.

See also

• Council of Energy Resource Tribes

Notes and References

1. Book: Abate. Randall. Climate Change and Indigenous Peoples: The Search for Legal Remedies. Kronk. Elizabeth Ann. 2013. Edward Elgar Publishing. 978-1-78100-180-6. 214. en.