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Chickasaw Nation Legislator Lila Dean McManus Walks On

By Brian Daffron
Choctaw Nation break ground
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Choctaw Nation: Focusing on Healthy, Educated Community with Three New Facilities

By Brian Daffron
Beloved Pow Wow’s Master of Ceremony Hammond Motah Walks On
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Beloved Pow Wow’s Master of Ceremony Hammond Motah Walks On

By Brian Daffron
SPEAK TO ME IN YOUR WAY SO THAT I CAN HEAR YOU, 2015. Driftwood, hardware, wool, canvas, glass beads, quartz crystal, artificial sinew, metal jingles, nylon fringe, acrylic, high-fire glazed ceramic - artist Jeffrey Gibson. Courtesy of the artist Jeffrey Gibson and MARC STRAUS Gallery
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Making Pow Wow Regalia Raw Materials into Modern Traditional Art

By Brian Daffron
Native Veterans - VA Hospitals
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Tribes Will Soon Be Able to Process Native Veterans VA Eligibility

By Brian Daffron
Tlingit artist Nahaan's 'Coastal Wombyn’s Resistance.'
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'Protect the Sacred' A NoDAPL Art Exhibit Benefits Standing Rock

By Brian Daffron
Twin Flames folk duo-Chelsea June, Jaaji
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Twin Flames: Heritage Inspires Folk-Music Duo

By Brian Daffron
Rosebud Solar Energy Projects GRID Alternative
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Tribes Showing Continued Interest In Solar Energy

By Brian Daffron
Dine' artist and activist Remy at his studio in Washington DC standing amidst Protector sashes worn at NoDAPL rallys - Photo Vincent Schilling
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Art Addressing ‘Historical Colonial Violence’: NoDAPL Dine’ Artist Remy

By Brian Daffron
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Cheyenne-Arapaho Tribes: Stepping Up for Oklahoma Veterans

By Brian Daffron
Ground Zero K9 dog Laya is seen here with Oklahoma Task Force member Andrew McCann.
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Chickasaw Nation Helps Fund K9 Search and Rescue Training Facility

By Brian Daffron
Part of the DRIFT Act allows for rehabilitation of existing BIA dams that could help stop flooding in potential areas.
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Improvement of Rez Flooding Tied to Passage of Water Development Resources Act

By Brian Daffron
This screenshot shows Doris Jean Lamar McLemore in a video by The Wichita Eagle.
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Doris McLemore, Last Fluent Wichita Speaker, Walks On

By Brian Daffron
Chickasaw Nation Governor Bill Anoatubby, Graham Greene and Gil Birmingham at the premiere of Te Ata.
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Graham Greene, Gil Birmingham Attend ‘Te Ata’ Premiere in Oklahoma

By Brian Daffron
Members of the Kiowa Black Leggings Society and the Apache Tribe of Oklahoma Color Guard participated in the opening ceremonies of the NMAI Veterans Memorial consultation hearing in Oklahoma City.
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Veterans Share Concerns on NMAI Memorial

By Brian Daffron
Owners of Main Street Event Center: Tracey Satepauhoodle-Mikkanen and Arvo Mikkanen.
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‘Shared Vision’ Drives Native Couple's Creation of Main Street Event Center

By Brian Daffron
Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin vetoed Senate Bill 1552 in May, not before the bill raised the question about tribal jurisdiction.
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Oklahoma Abortion Bill Veto Opens Tribal Jurisdiction Question

By Brian Daffron
Sol Seed—a reggae-fusion band out of Eugene, Oregon—has a relationship with the Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde through its guitarist, Kenny Sequoia Lewis.
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Reggae On The Oregon Rez: Kenny Sequoia Lewis and Sol Seed

By Brian Daffron
The inaugural Indigenous Comic Con on November 18-20 in Albuquerque, New Mexico, hopes to break down stereotypes.
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Indigenerds Unite! Indigenous Comic Con Coming to Albuquerque

By Brian Daffron
The daughters of Brigadier General Joane Mathews pin her new rank on her shoulders.
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‘Very Honored’: Lac Du Flambeau Woman First Female Army National Guard General

By Brian Daffron
Billed as “North America’s Biggest Powwow” for more than 30 years, the annual Gathering of Nations (GON), held on the last weekend of April, has to find a new home.
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Racist Comments Flood in After UNM Drops Gathering of Nations

By Brian Daffron
With 35 years of exhibitions to its credit, the Iroquois Indian Museum celebrates its history with “35 Years of Iroquois Art: A Retrospective,” showing through September 30.
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35 Years of Good Medicine: Iroquois Indian Museum Celebrates with Huge Art Retrospective

By Brian Daffron
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'To the Disappearance': Poetry Collection Intertwines Birth, Death and Pawnee Cosmology

By Brian Daffron
Around the time Dr. Dre’s The Chronic blazed its way through the charts, a young boy on the Tulalip Reservation named Kisar Jones Fryberg began to listen to hip-hop, Fryberg has since become “Komplex Kai.”
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Komplex Kai: A Tulalip Rapper’s Journey to ‘Do Right’

By Brian Daffron
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Tribal Self-Sufficiency Behind Pokagon and South Bend Agreement

By Brian Daffron
Standing from left: Laura Rodriguez, VA Regional Assistant Loan Production Officer; Seminole Nation Assistant Chief Lewis Johnson; Mary Culley, VA Office of Tribal Government Relations Specialist. Seated from left are Mike Frueh, VA Director of Loan Guaranty Service, and Seminole Nation Chief Leonard Harjo.
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VA Helps Seminole Vets Get Homes

By Brian Daffron
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Soldiers Unknown: Graphic Novelist Chag Lowry on World War I’s Native Warriors

By Brian Daffron
A beautiful portrait: 'Oglala' by J. NiCole Hatfield
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Speaking Through Canvas: J. NiCole Hatfield

By Brian Daffron
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VA and HUD ‘Fulfilling a Commitment’ to End Native Veteran Homelessness

By Brian Daffron
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Tribal Veterans See Slow Yet Steady Improvements Through 2015

By Brian Daffron
In 1978, Tom Ware recorded a solo project, "Flute Songs of the Kiowa and Comanche," the cover of which is seen here.
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Gifted Musician Tom Mauchahty-Ware Walks On

By Brian Daffron
Indigenous Rugby Great of New Zealand, Jonah Lomu Has Walked On
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World Mourns Indigenous Rugby Great as New Zealand’s Jonah Lomu Walks On

By Brian Daffron
“I would love for the Native community to feel like they see themselves up on that stage, and they’re very proud of it,” says Shaun Taylor Corbett
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“Incredible Wonder and Magic”: Distant Thunder Rolling Toward Broadway

By Brian Daffron
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‘Gives Me Chills’ Veterans Memorial From Native Perspective

By Brian Daffron
Race-Based Murder, Mystery and the Dark Side of Small-Town America in LeClair’s Film “Bridge”
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Race-Based Murder, Mystery and the Dark Side of Small-Town America in LeClair’s “Bridge”

By Brian Daffron
Members of the Oklahoma Inter-Tribal Veterans Association Buddy Bond Chapter and the Kiowa Black Leggings Society present the colors at the Stand-Down's opening ceremonies.
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VA and Tribal Stand-Down Shows Improvements Despite Underfunding

By Brian Daffron
Veteran stand-downs across the nation are a way to get veterans the help they deserve to receive.
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Stand-Down for Veterans Sponsored by Southwest Oklahoma Tribes

By Brian Daffron
Jody Calick speaking at the POW-MIA Ceremony as part of the VA Service Training Summit recently held at Grand Ronde.
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VA Brings Veterans’ Services Training to Indian Country

By Brian Daffron
Huzo Paddlety painting from the Charles Kennedye collection. Courtesy Charles Kennedye.
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Artist Huzo Paddlety Walks On

By Brian Daffron
'Touch to Above' at AICCM. Photo by Brian Daffron.
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Oklahoma City’s AICCM Reaching for Hope With Inaugural Installation

By Brian Daffron
Dennis Belindo (U.S., Kiowa/Navajo; 1938-2009) 'Kiowa Blackleggins' (detail), 1990 Serigraph, 14 3/4 x 11 in. Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art, The University of Oklahoma, Norman; Gift of Dr. and Mrs. R.E. Mansfield, 2003 Image courtesy of Artist's Estate (c) 2015.
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Native Printmakers at Fred Jones Museum: Skill and Community on Display

By Brian Daffron
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10 Things You Should Know About Cherokee Nation

By Brian Daffron
Joe Dorman making a campaign stop at the Kiowa Black Leggings Ceremonial on October 11, 2014. From left are Renee' Plata, member of the Kiowa Black Leggings Women's Auxiliary; Blas Preciado, Vice-Commander of the Kiowa Black Leggings Society; Dorman; and Janis Wermy, Kiowa Black Leggings Women's Auxiliary President.
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8 Questions for Oklahoma Gubernatorial Candidate Joe Dorman

By Brian Daffron
Jaunita Pahdopony, noted artist and Dean of Academic Affairs Emeritus of Comanche Nation College shares some of the things she loves about the Comanche Nation.
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10 Things You Need to Know About the Comanche Nation

By Brian Daffron
Q'orianka Kilcher all smiles on the set of Te Ata. Photo by Brian Daffron.
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Q'orianka Kilcher: Te Ata Is 'Most Challenging Role I Have Ever Taken On'

By Brian Daffron
Chickasaw Nation Governor Bill Anoatubby on the set of Te Ata with actor Gil Birmingham. Photo by Brian Daffron.
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Star-Watching on Set of 'Te Ata' in Oklahoma City

By Brian Daffron
Johnpaul Jones, an architect of Choctaw and Cherokee heritage recently received the National Humanities Medal which was presented by President Barack Obama.
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Designing for Life: Six Questions with NMAI Architect Johnpaul Jones

By Brian Daffron
The tornado that leveled parts of Moore, Oklahoma in 2013. One Caddo Tribe member was killed, and scores of Natives lost their homes.
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Prepared for the Worst: Oklahoma Tribes Hope New Tornado Measures Are Enough

By Brian Daffron
Following the sudden retirement of Choctaw Nation Chief Gregory Pyle, Gary Batton, pictured, was named his successor.
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New Choctaw Chief Gary Batton and His Council of Wisdom

By Brian Daffron
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Washburn Approves Kaw Nation Land for Gaming

By Brian Daffron