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Ambassador Jonodev Chaudhuri provides his testimony during the hearing. (Gaylord News Photo/Beck Connelley)
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Tribal leaders cast doubt on Supreme Court ruling

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Pictured: Chief Hoskin provides testimony Wednesday to the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs.
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Oklahoma tribes split over status of descendants of their former slaves.

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Cherokee Nation makes history with transportation compact

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Chilocco Indian School was a federal off-reservation boarding school established to house, civilize, Christianize, educate, and transform American Indian youth. Thousands of Native children and young adults passed under the school's entryway arch. In January 1884, Chilocco opened its doors in 1884 to 150 children from the Cheyenne, Arapaho, Wichita, Comanche, and Pawnee tribes. It closed in 1980. (Photo courtesy Oklahoma History Center)
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Truth and Healing Commission subpoena authority jeopardizes support

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The Kaw Nation’s Sacred Red Rock called “Iⁿ ‘zhúje ‘waxóbe, was a place of cultural ceremony and gathering for the Kaw people prior to removal to Oklahoma in 1872. The stone was moved from the Kaw’s homelands near the Kansas River and Shunganunga Creek, just outside Topeka, to Robinson Park in Lawrence, Kan., as part of Lawrence’s 75th anniversary celebration in 1929, and was fitted with a plaque celebrating the pioneers of Kansas. (Photo provided by James Pepper Henry.)
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Reclaiming ancestral homelands beyond state borders

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Oklahoma Indian Country. (Oklahoma Department of Transportation)
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Oklahoma, tribes tension compared to western states

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An artist’s rendering shows plans for the new Cherokee Nation hospital, announced in December 2021, that will replace the 40-year-old Hastings Hospital in Tahlequah, Oklahoma. (Courtesy of the Cherokee Nation)
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Tribal leaders expect economic boost

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Ione Quigley, the Rosebud Sioux's historic preservation officer, returns to her seat after speaking during a ceremony at the U.S. Army's Carlisle Barracks, in Carlisle, Pa., Wednesday, July 14, 2021. The disinterred remains of nine Native American children who died more than a century ago while attending a government-run school in Pennsylvania were headed home to Rosebud Sioux tribal lands in South Dakota on Wednesday after a ceremony returning them to relatives. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
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Debate over boarding schools continues

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Wilma Mankiller reads to young students. (Photo courtesy of the Wilma Mankiller Foundation)
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Design chosen for Wilma Mankiller coin

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Rosa Soto Alvarez, of Tucson,, holds a flag of the Pascua Yaqui Tribe as she and other Native Americans stand outside the federal appeals court in New Orleans, Wednesday, Jan. 22, 2020. Parts of a federal law giving Native American families preference in the adoption of Native American children were effectively struck down Tuesday, April 6, 2021 by a sharply divided federal appeals court, a defeat for tribal leaders who said the 1978 law was important to protecting their families and culture. (AP Photo/Kevin McGill)
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ICWA experts say state laws could protect Native families

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Gov. Reggie Wassana, right, and Lt. Gov. Gib Miles stand together shortly after their reelection the night of Nov. 2. (Photo courtesy of Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes)
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Cheyenne and Arapaho leader elected to second term

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Muscogee Nation Lighthorse Police gather at the River Spirit Casino in preparation for collaborative efforts with the Tulsa Police Department to respond to citizen demonstrations after the killing of George Floyd. (Photo by Jason Salsman/Muscogee Nation)
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Tribal law enforcement officials say McGirt strengthening public safety

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Henry Smith and Viola Belle Asrinwine, Za Smith’s great grandparents, (right) Za Smith. (Courtesy photo)
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Freedmen descendants hopeful for increased federal care

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Quapaw Nation Business Committee Chairman Joseph T. Byrd. (Photo courtesy of Quapaw Nation)
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Quapaw addresses new criminal justice center, McGirt application

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Quapaw Nation Business Committee Chairman Joseph T. Byrd. (Photo courtesy of Quapaw Nation)
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Quapaw Nation land affirmed as Indian Country

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Indigenous environmental activists and allies protest in front of the White House at the People Vs. Fossil Fuels rally. (Photo by Robert Viamontes/Gaylord News)
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Oklahoma Indigenous activists urges climate emergency declaration

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Mining debris is all that remains more than a decade after Picher, Oklahoma, was declared unlivable and evacuated by the U.S. EPA. (Photo by Oklahoma Department of Environmental Quality)
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Oklahoma tribe awaits action on environmental damages

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Joy Harjo inside the Library of Congress building. (Photo by Shawn Miller/Library of Congress)
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Joy Harjo rings in third term as US poet laureate

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Honorée Fanonne Jeffers. (Photo courtesy of Honorée Fanonne Jeffers)
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Exploring the Afro-Indigenous experience

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Kim Duncan’s three adopted daughters, from left, Shalyn, Shyanne and Shelbi, sit smiling with their watermelon in the summer heat, September 2021. (Courtesy photo)
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Reaction to developments in Indian Child Welfare Act review

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Oklahoma looks at new Native voting rights bill

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Jaime Pinkham, Nez Perce, is the acting assistant secretary of the Army Corps of Civil Works. (Photo courtesy of Army Pentagon Visual Office)
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Recovering history in the Army Corps of Engineers

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U.S. Representative Markwayne Mullin. (Photo by Jourdan Bennett-Begaye, ICT)
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Markwayne Mullin whereabouts unknown, attempted to enter Afghanistan

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A worker greets a patient at Chickasaw Nation Emergency Operations Facility in Ada, Oklahoma. (Photo by Chickasaw Nation)
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Tribes prep for vaccine booster after FDA approval

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Cherokee Nation citizens and those from federally recognized tribes eligible for services with Cherokee Nation Health Services get COVID-19 vaccines at the new Cherokee Nation office located at 402 West Locust Street in Stilwell on Wednesday.
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Tribes canceling events in response to COVID-19 uptick

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Kim Holmes at work in her office at the Altamont Apartment complex in Tulsa where she works as a property manager for the Mental Health Association of Oklahoma. (Gaylord News photo/ John Gott)
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Despite tragedies, Cherokee woman continues to help

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The House passes a seven-bill package along party lines. (Photo courtesy of C-SPAN)
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House passes appropriations bill, Oklahoma amendments voted down

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Jacob Keyes, Iowa Tribe of Oklahoma, owner and operate of SkyDance Brewing Company. (Photo courtesy of Gaylord News)
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Tribal citizen to expand brewing company

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Gary Tsoodle poses with Kiowa elder Dorothy WhiteHorse, who coached the 10-year-old star of “News of the World,” on set in New Mexico. (Photo courtesy of Lynda DeLaune via Gaylord News)
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Oklahoma man 'honored' to play Kiowa chief in film

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Tom Hanks (hat) gets his picture with Dorothy WhiteHorse (sitting) and the Kiowa cast of “News of the World.” (Photo by Lynda DeLaune via Gaylord News)
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Kiowa elder bonds with young actress

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House votes to reauthorize Violence Against Women Act

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Cherokee Nation citizen Betty Frogg receives a COVID-19 vaccine on Dec. 17, 2020. The Cherokee Nation dedicated early coronavirus vaccines to front-line health care workers and Cherokee language speakers. (Photo courtesy of Cherokee Nation)
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Oklahoma vaccinations push forward despite bad weather

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Truman ‘TL’ Leon Baker, Kiowa. (Photo by the Kiowa Tribe via Gaylord News)
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Record snow, cold kills Kiowa citizen

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Kiowa volunteers work to provide nearly 45,000 pounds of boxed-up food to tribal members and non-Native members of the community. (Photo by the Kiowa Tribe via Gaylord News)
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Kiowa volunteers hand out supplies amid harsh weather

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Citizen Potawatomi Health Services workers give out COVID-19 vaccinations on Jan 22, 2021. (Photo courtesy of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation)
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Oklahoma tribes step up to protect their own

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A statue of Will Rogers smiles down from his pedestal in the House connecting corridor on the second floor of the Capitol. (Photo courtesy of Architect of the Capitol/aoc.gov)
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Will Rogers witnessed two Capitol riots

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Recent arrivals at the Carlisle Indian Industrial School pose with upperclassmen. About 80,000 students attended the school before it closed in 1918. (Photo courtesy of the Carlisle Indian School Digital Resource Center)
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Boarding school stories still echo

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A mural by artist Elizabeth Janes depicts the arrival of the Cherokee Nation in Oklahoma in the 1830s. Painted from 1938-39, the 8-by-15-foot mural is on display at the Oklahoma Historical Society in Oklahoma City. (Image courtesy Oklahoma Historical Society)
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Trail of Tears wasn't isolated incident

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Isabella Aiukli Cornell’s 2018 prom dress is on display in “Girlhood,” a new exhibit at the Smithsonian National Museum of American History. Designer Della Bighair-Stump chose red to bring attention to the peril faced by Indigenous women. (Photo by Emma Sears/Gaylord News)
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Prom dress promoting MMIW joins Smithsonian show

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Kiowa Tribal Chairman Matthew Komalty. (Kiowa Tribe via Facebook)
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Kiowa chairman’s impeachment hearing delayed

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Kiowa Tribal Chairman Matthew Komalty. (Kiowa Tribe via Facebook)
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Kiowas seeking to impeach chairman

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