Native Oklahoma

As federal solar tax credits end, here's how one Oklahoma tribal nation used them Federal incentives to lessen the financial burden of solar panel installations are ending earlier than originally planned after the July 4 passage of the tax and spending law. By Chloe Bennett-Steele, KOSU Although the

The Chickasaw Nation’s junior and senior Chikasha Bak Bak (Chickasaw Woodpecker) youth stickball teams went undefeated during the 2025 Choctaw Nation Youth Stickball Tournament. “Chikasha Bak Bak junior and senior teams went undefeated in their age divisions at the tournament,” Bak Bak coach Brandon White Eagle said. “This remarkable

Devol, Okla. – Comanche Red River Hotel Casino is celebrating creativity and community at the second annual Red River Art & Music Festival, set for Saturday, September 6 from 3 p.m. until midnight.  The festival will take place at Comanche Red River Hotel Casino in Devol, located at 196747 Highway

By Cara Cowan Watts, Cherokee 411 TAHLEQUAH, Okla. — Supporters of the United Keetoowah Band of Cherokee Indians (UKB) are planning a peaceful protest at the 2025 Cherokee National Holiday’s State of the Nation address Saturday, Aug. 30, at 11 a.m. Protestors are being asked to arrive by 10:

Muscogee Nation will pause new citizenship cards following Freedmen descendant ruling Muscogee Nation Principal Chief David Hill issued an executive order on Thursday, pausing the issuance of new citizenship cards in the wake of a tribal court’s ruling requiring the nation to grant citizenship to the descendants of Freedmen.

By Troy Littledeer OKMULGEE, Okla. — The Muscogee (Creek) Nation National Council voted Saturday to postpone a resolution supporting the United Keetoowah Band of Cherokee Indians (UKB) in its dispute over federal legislation that would require Cherokee Nation consent before any other tribe could place land into trust within the Cherokee

Despite tribal citizenship, traffic tickets for Freedmen descendants to remain in city court A deal for the City of Tulsa to send traffic and other municipal cases involving Muscogee Nation citizens to tribal court doesn’t cover the descendants of formerly enslaved people who are also tribal citizens. By Clifton