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Cherokee Nation unveils solar-powered lighting solution in Nowata
Project improves safety for community organization, tribal health center and food distribution site
NOWTA, Okla. – The Cherokee Nation has taken a significant step to enhance community safety and embrace sustainable practices with the completion of a solar-powered lighting project in Nowata. Funded with $55,000 from the Cherokee Nation’s
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AICCO to measure impact of Native businesses and tribes in Oklahoma
Written By: Rachael Schuit | VNN Oklahoma
(OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla.) The influence of Indian Country businesses on the State of Oklahoma’s economy cannot be understated, according to tribal leaders like Muscogee Creek Nation (MCN) Principal Chief David Hill.
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Chief Hoskin expands Executive Order on Equality, creates task force to ensure Freedmen citizens have equal access to tribal programs
TAHLEQUAH, Okla. – Cherokee Nation Principal Chief Chuck Hoskin Jr. has expanded a 2020 Executive Order on Equality and created a task force that will study whether Cherokee citizens of Freedmen descent are provided equal access to tribal programs and services.
Chief Hoskin’s 2020 Executive Order on Equality was created
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Sports betting still isn't legal in Oklahoma. Could that change this year?
by Molly Young, The Oklahoman
Some Oklahoma lawmakers want to bring the state off the sidelines of sports betting and into the game. They’re facing long odds, however.
Gov. Kevin Stitt wants to open Oklahoma’
Cherokee Nation purchases North Tulsa property
Former Greater Sunrise Baptist Church building to be leased to Cherokee community organization for community space
TULSA, Okla. — Cherokee Nation Principal Chief Chuck Hoskin Jr. and Deputy Chief Bryan Warner announced Friday the purchase of a property in North Tulsa that will be renovated and converted into community space.
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Cherokee Nation investing over $80M to build cell towers in rural Cherokee communities
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
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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.