Photographer releases legacy project highlighting Tribal members, history:
Paige Willett, Citizen Potawatomi Nation Public Information Department
Since 2010, Chicago photographer and Citizen Potawatomi Nation tribal member Sharon Hoogstraten has been documenting members from the Potawatomi nations across North America for her book Dancing for Our Tribe: Potawatomi Tradition in the New Millennium.
Throughout the last 12 years, she
Chickasaw Business Network launches businesses incubator to assist First Americans:
Chickasaw Nation Governor Bill Anoatubby announced the Chickasaw Business Network is creating a small business incubator program, Apelachi (Support) Business Center, during his annual State of the Nation address, Oct. 1. The Apelachi Business Center will assist First Americans with their entrepreneurial endeavors. Program participants will begin being accepted fall
Muscogee Nation and OU announce partnership at south Tulsa's Council Oak hospital
by Michael Overall
Expanding services at the tribe’s new hospital in south Tulsa, the Muscogee Nation considered several organizations to provide surgical care.
“There are going to be people come and go over the years, organizations that come and go,” said Shawn Terry, the tribe’s secretary of health.
CPN Supreme Court Justice named one of Oklahoma Magazine’s 40 Under 40:
By: Paige Willett, Citizen Potawatomi Nation Public Information Department
As a young professional, lawyer and Citizen Potawatomi Nation Supreme Court Associate Justice, Jennifer Lamirand can list accomplishments from her 20s and 30s that many hope to achieve in their entire career. This year, her employer Crowe & Dunlevy nominated her
Oklahoma Freedom Defeat Kansas City Outlaws Via Derek Kolbaba’s Fourth Walk-Off Ride of Season to Move to No. 3 in Standings in Final Regular-Season Game in Glendale, Arizona:
Oklahoma Freedom: 89
Kansas City Outlaws: 79.5
B-Roll (Courtesy PBR): Click here to download.
GLENDALE, Ariz. – Down to their last out in their final 2022 regular season game, the Oklahoma Freedom again snatched victory from the jaws of defeat courtesy of a walk-off, game-winning ride from Derek Kolbaba (Walla
Commission rules on tribal tax case; controversy simmers:
By: Janice Francis-Smith
The Oklahoma Tax Commission disavowed the findings of its own report, as well as the findings of its own administrative law judge, in order to reject a tribal citizen’s claimed exemption from state income tax.
While Gov. Kevin Stitt heralded the decision as a win for
Season 3, Episode 3: "Heroes Of WWI: Nuchi Nashoba (Choctaw) And Judy Allen (Choctaw) On Our Choctaw Code Talkers"
They were forbidden to practice their culture and to speak in their Native tongue. And yet, in World War I, that very language would surprise the Germans and ultimately contribute to victory!
Many know of the Navajo Code Talkers, but what most don’t realize is that in World War