Native Oklahoma

Group of diverse professionals will enhance team dynamic to drive future growth and innovation OKLAHOMA CITY – OKANA Resort & Indoor Waterpark (OKANA) announces the hiring of nine new leadership team members for the $400 million project along the Oklahoma River near downtown Oklahoma City. These new leadership team hires will

Chief Standing Bear advocates for Self-Governance at RNC Standing Bear spoke about the Nation’s self-governance efforts, the continuing lack of partnership from the Department of Interior, and the hope of working together Written by Shannon Shaw Duty, Editor Osage News Principal Chief Geoffrey Standing Bear spoke on behalf of

$1 Million Championship Event DURANT, Okla. - The World Series of Poker Circuit event kicked off inside Choctaw Casino & Resort – Durant this week! The tournament began on Wednesday, July 17 with a $130 buy-in senior's event. It will last until Sunday, July 28 with the $1 million

Feds say wind farm owes millions for turbines in Osage County; wind farm attorneys disagree A federal judge says a wind farm must pay the Osage Nation for illegally mining on Osage land, but the court hasn’t decided how much. At closing arguments this week, federal prosecutors argued those

ICYMI: Final Arkansas gaming license awarded to CNE BY D. SEAN ROWLEY  LITTLE ROCK, Ark. – Years ago, before there was a COVID-19 pandemic, Cherokee Nation Entertainment applied for one of the four gaming licenses approved by the Arkansas electorate in 2018. It seemed the CNE lost its bid, then won

Oklahoma's Bacone College filing for bankruptcy, president vows to keep fighting Bacone College in Muskogee is filing for bankruptcy. By Katie Hallum “Indian University,” now known as “Bacone College” was Oklahoma’s first higher education institution and America’s first Native college. It opened its doors in 1881

DURANT, Okla. (July 1, 2024) – The Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma celebrates five graduates from the Family Medicine Residency Program this summer. Doctors Henry Gutierrez, Zachary Cruse, Shanell Gray, Patrick McIntosh, and Daniel Stacy finish their three-year residency with Choctaw Nation and four are remaining on as a physician with Choctaw