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Angel Goodrich will be inducted into the National American Indigenous Athletics Hall of Fame this year. Born in Glendale, Arizona, to parents Jonathan and Fayth Lewis. She has two siblings, an older brother Zach and a younger sister Nikki. She is a member of the United Keetoowah Band of Cherokee

By Dacoda McDowell-Wahpekeche Sovereign Community School is looking for ways to continue teaching Native American youth after being notified their funding could end in June. Members of the State Board of Education voted Jan. 26 to issue a notice of termination, which could close the school if a new sponsor

SULPHUR, Okla. – “Montford: The Chickasaw Rancher” will be in the spotlight Saturday, March 11, as the Chickasaw Cultural Center’s Holba’ Pisachi’ Native Film Festival returns. Cast members Martin Sensmeier (Tlingit, Koyukon-Athabascan), Tatanka Means (Oglala Lakota, Omaha, Navajo) and James Landry Hébert will headline the event. Sensmeier stars as Montford

By Allison Herrera Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt is pushing for the legalization of sports betting. And a bill filed by Rep. Ken Luttrell, R-Ponca City, would do just that. House Bill 1027 involves a tiered fee structure for tribes, where they pay more of a percentage of their revenue based

Fields received the Women in the Arts Recognition Award from the Cimarron Chapter of DAR Written by Shannon Shaw Duty Anita Fields, the Osage prodigious artist who primarily works in clay and textiles, received the Women in the Arts Recognition Award from the Cimarron Chapter, National Society Daughters of the

Bigfork, MT – uAvionix today announced that the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma (CNO) Beyond Program received approval from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) for Beyond Visual Line of Sight (BVLOS) operations using uAvionix SkyLine™ Managed C2 and Detect and Avoid sensors on the Emerging Aviation Technology Center UAS Test Range. This

By: Janice Francis-Smith OKLAHOMA CITY – This could be the year Oklahoma legalizes sports betting. Though the effort to legalize sports betting continues to be challenged by the fraught relationship between Gov. Kevin Stitt and tribal leaders, lawmakers are set to take up the issue again when the 2023 legislative session