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December 4, 2024

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(Photo courtesy of Oklahoma Sen. Markwayne Mullin's office)

Vote Trump to protect and strengthen Indian Country

Nov 2, 2024

Jonodev Chaudhuri, former chairman of the National Indian Gaming Commission, testifies before the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs in October 2017. (Senate Committee on Indian Affairs)

Indian Country at a crossroads: Is our reach exceeding our grasp?

Oct 24, 2024

The western chat pile is the largest chat pile remaining, according to Summer King with the Quapaw Nation Enviromental Office, and stands 200 feet tall Wednesday, Oct. 16, 2024 in Picher, Ok. (Photo by Mike Simons, Tulsa World)

Quapaw Nation restoring their reservation that scientist says feds destroyed

Oct 23, 2024

Cherokee Nation Principal Chief Chuck Hoskin Jr. (left) Gilcrease Museum Executive Director Brian Whisenhunt stand next to the former Cherokee Advocate printing press, which is being returned to the Cherokee Nation. (Photo courtesy of Cherokee Nation)

Historic printing press returning to Cherokee Nation

Oct 3, 2024

Left to right: Indian Gaming Association Chairman Ernie Stevens Jr., Oneida Nation; Shawnee Chief Ben Barnes; Norman Hildebrand, second chief, Wyandotte Nation; Margo Gray, executive director, UINO; Muscogee Nation Principal Chief David Hill; Peoria Chief Craig Harper; Joe Deere, Cherokee Nation council member; DJ and motivational speaker Chance Rush; Larry Wright Jr., NCAI executive director. (Felix Clary, ICT + Tulsa World)

Tribal leaders on why Natives in Oklahoma must vote in November

Oct 2, 2024

A weathered rose sits on the grave of James Cornman at the Carlisle Barracks Post Cemetery in Pennsylvania on Sept. 5, 2024. James was one of three Oglala Sioux students who died while attending the Carlisle Indian Industrial School in the late 1800s and is among 11 Native youths disinterred from the Carlisle cemetery starting Sept. 6, 2024. They are being repatriated back to their homelands. Along with James, the remains of Oglala students Samuel Flying Horse and Fannie Charging Shield have been returned to Pine Ridge for reburial. (Photo by Charles Fox, special to ICT)

Girl’s remains from Carlisle returned to Wichita Nation

Oct 1, 2024

The chamber of the House of Representatives is seen at the Capitol in Washington, Monday, Feb. 28, 2022. President Joe Biden will deliver his State of the Union speech Tuesday night to a joint session of Congress and the nation. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Tribal leaders implore Congress to reauthorize farm bill that is set to expire

Sep 26, 2024

The arial view shows the whole Piper Aircraft Corp. plant at Ponca City on July 9, 1947. It is on the northwestern edge of the city and was the site of the Darr School of Aeronautics which trained Royal Air Force pilots almost to the end of the World War II. (Photo courtesy of the Oklahoma Historical Society)

Ponca City designated as a World War II Heritage City by National Park Service

By Oklahoma Voice

Sep 24, 2024

Flooding is pictured Tuesday, May 21, 2019, near Minco, Okla. Flooding following heavy rains was an issue across the state. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki)

Study: Indigenous lands more prone to flooding in Oklahoma

By The Daily Yonder

Sep 11, 2024

During his State of the Nation address on Aug. 31, Principal Chief Chuck Hoskin Jr. shared several policy proposals his administration will prioritize in the next 12 months. (Stacie Boston, Cherokee Phoenix)

Chuck Hoskin delivers impassioned State of the Nation address

By Cherokee Phoenix

Sep 4, 2024

Pictured: Mugshot of Walter "Bunky" Echo-Hawk Jr.

Final charge dropped against artist Bunky Echo-Hawk

Aug 23, 2024

Snak Atak opened in March in the former Indian Country Mini Mart on land within Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation reservation in Kansas. (Cami Koons/For Kansas Reflector)

Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation asks federal court to resolve jurisdiction dispute

By Oklahoma Voice

Aug 18, 2024

The Oklahoma Choctaws Girls, the champions of the 2024 Elevated Native Basketball tournament, with Lindy Waters III. (Courtesy)

Lindy Waters III Foundation hosts annual tournament

By Cherokee Phoenix

Aug 11, 2024

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Women’s health care in Oklahoma ranked one of the worst

By Oklahoma Voice

Aug 4, 2024

Flooding is pictured Tuesday, May 21, 2019, near Minco, Okla. Flooding following heavy rains was an issue across the state. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki)

Tribal lands in Oklahoma are 5 times more likely to flood than rest of state

Jul 28, 2024

Chilocco Indian School was a federal off-reservation boarding school established to house, civilize, Christianize, educate, and transform American Indian youth. Thousands of Native children and young adults passed under the school's entryway arch. In January 1884, Chilocco opened its doors in 1884 to 150 children from the Cheyenne, Arapaho, Wichita, Comanche, and Pawnee tribes. It closed in 1980. (Photo courtesy Oklahoma History Center)

Boarding schools investigation a step closer as bills progress

Jul 23, 2024

Cecilia Barnett and her husband walk into their new home in Muskogee, Okla., located within a new Cherokee Nation-built housing subdivision. The couple only has to pay $600 a month to lease the property, which they can own after paying off the mortgage. (Felix Clary, ICT + Tulsa World)

Cherokee Nation celebrates new housing for tribal citizens

Jul 16, 2024

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Death of Dan Deer: The tragedy of Indigenous trauma

Jul 15, 2024

Plaintiff Rhonda Grayson speaks Tuesday, July 9, 2024, at a press conference about her case seeking Muscogee Nation citizenship as a freedman descendent. (Felix Clary, ICT + Tulsa World)

Muscogee Nation appoints special judge, freedmen say its racial discrimination

Jul 11, 2024

Paul Gaines avoids being tackled by (from left) Walela Walter, 10, Aiyana Walter, 11, and Tsila Walter, 13, as he holds up the ball with a Cherokee-style stick on Friday, July 5, 2024, in Tahlequah, Okla. (Victor Lopez, Tulsa World)

Cherokee Nation revives stickball, ‘the little war’

Jul 11, 2024

"I voted on Native land" sticker created by Urban Native Era. (Jourdan Bennett-Begaye, ICT)

100 years of citizenship – tribal advocates press citizens to vote

Jul 4, 2024

The Phillips 66 refinery in Ponca City sits just a short distance from the Standing Bear Museum and Educational Center, where benzene continues to contaminate the groundwater. Oil rights were taken from the Ponca Tribe in north central Oklahoma and then exploited by the oil and gas industry with little thought given to environmental protection. (Photo by Phil McKenna courtesy of Inside Climate News)

Study: Climate change intensifies hazard risk for Native Americans

By Gaylord News

Jul 1, 2024

Rep. Tom Cole, R-Okla., speaks to reporters after Republicans met to try and decide who to nominate to be the new House speaker, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Monday, Oct. 23, 2023. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Tom Cole reminds subcommittee of tribal sovereignty over trust lands

Jul 1, 2024

An old sign for the school sits in a storage shed at Bacone College, on Jan. 8 2024, in Muskogee, Okla. Founded in 1880 as a Baptist missionary college focused on assimilation, Bacone College transformed into an Indigenous-led institution that provided an intertribal community, as well as a degree. (AP Photo/Nick Oxford)

Bacone College goes bankrupt in attempt to save campus

Jun 28, 2024

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