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Fieldwork within impacted communities beginning in late February TAHLEQUAH, Okla. – The Cherokee Nation is constructing 15 new cell towers in 16 rural Cherokee communities and creating a broadband Internet network to help bridge the digital divide where cell service and broadband infrastructure are lacking or nonexistent. Cherokee Nation expects to

Tulsa's Gilcrease Museum continues repatriation efforts with return of ancestral remains to tribes The Gilcrease Museum is returning ancestral remains to tribes. The museum’s board of trustees voted Tuesday morning to give back the remains of Ponca Native Americans to their respective lands in Oklahoma and Nebraska.

VINITA, Okla. – Cherokee Nation Principal Chief Chuck Hoskin Jr. announced Wednesday new investments in cultural preservation through the acquisition of two historic homes. The announcement was made during a presentation to the Vinita Rotary Club and includes the homes of former Chiefs Thomas Buffington in Vinita and J.B. Milam

By: Mary Leaver, Citizen Potawatomi Nation Public Information Department The window will be closing soon for the chance for Potawatomi youth to apply for this summer’s Potawatomi Leadership Program. The program, which welcomes college-aged Citizen Potawatomi Nation Tribal members, will run from June 14 to July 27, 2024. The

TAHLEQUAH, Okla. — The Cherokee Nation will begin taking applications for a limited supply of heirloom seeds on Feb. 6 for tribal citizens interested in growing traditional Cherokee crops and plants. “I’m very proud to see the Cherokee Nation seed bank continue to offer a vital link to our Cherokee

Removing Osage Wind farm leaves school district with huge funding gap by Curtis Killman, Mike Simons Tulsa World Five years ago, the Shidler School District was in a tough spot. Located in northwestern Osage County, the district’s high school and middle school facilities — nearly 100 years old — had seen

Cherokee Council unanimously supports Chief Hoskin, Deputy Chief Warner proposal for tribe’s largest language investment TAHLEQUAH, Okla. — Leaders of the Cherokee Nation gathered on Wednesday, Jan. 24, to celebrate the permanent reauthorization of the historic Durbin Feeling Language Preservation Act inside the Durbin Feeling Language Center in Tahlequah. The