Tribes form council to address utility issues

The Intertribal COUP is composed of Federally recognized Indian tribes in North and South Dakota and affiliates throughout the northern Great Plains.

Organized in 1994, it is chartered and headquartered on the Rosebud Sioux Reservation to provide a tribal forum for policy issues dealing with telecommunications and energy utility operations and services.

Intertribal COUP strongly adheres to the principles of tribal self-determination and ecological sustainability, supporting the development of sustainable homeland economies built upon renewable energy resources. In pursuit of these goals, the council partners with DOE, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Western, Bureau of Indian Affairs, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and Ellsworth Air Force Base, Department of Agriculture, Environmental Protection Agency, Intertribal Energy Network and many others.