Using $3 million in ARPA funds, the Nation proposes building a new 293,000-gallon tank and new water lines for families and businesses west of Pawhuska Written by Louise Red Corn Allan Richards, a civil engineer with the Osage Nation’s water consulting firm, turned the tables at a meeting

By Cassidy Mudd The U.S. Department of the Interior awarded Oklahoma an initial $25 million to help address legacy pollution caused by orphaned oil and gas wells left abandoned across the state. The funds will be utilized to plug nearly 1,200 documented, orphaned wells on state, federal, private,

WASHINGTON, Aug. 25, 2022 -- The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) today announced it has awarded a total of $72.9 million in Fiscal Year (FY) 2022 Specialty Crop Block Grant Program (SCBGP) funding. The FY 2022 non-competitive awards were made to the departments

In autumn of 1856, Cyrus Harris, along with a few other men, stood in a field near the Chickasaw Council House at Good Spring (now Tishomingo) and waited. During the first gubernatorial election, after adoption of their own constitution following the separation from the Choctaw Nation the previous year, Chickasaw

By Marilyn Cater LAWTON, Okla. (KSWO) - The Kiowa tribe housing authority will soon start constructing new homes thanks to a 5 million dollar grant they received.This is a big deal for the Kiowa housing authority because they have not been able to build new homes for their tribal

OSAGE NATION, OK – Osage Nation received notice of a $40.6 million grant from the Tribal Broadband Connectivity Program. The massive award will provide critical infrastructure where high speed internet is lacking within the Osage Nation. “This award is a game changer for our broadband efforts,” said Osage Principal Chief

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — The remains of Native American people who once lived in Alabama were dug up a century ago — often by amateur archaeologists — and given to the state along with the jewelry, urns and other objects buried with them.The Alabama Department of Archives and