October 22, 2021

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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

3 minutes ago
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

Oct 20, 2021
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

Oct 7, 2021
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

Oct 2, 2021
Honorée Fanonne Jeffers. (Photo courtesy of Honorée Fanonne Jeffers)
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Exploring the Afro-Indigenous experience

Sep 28, 2021
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

Sep 27, 2021
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Oklahoma looks at new Native voting rights bill

Sep 15, 2021
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

Sep 3, 2021
U.S. Representative Markwayne Mullin. (Photo by Jourdan Bennett-Begaye, ICT)
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Markwayne Mullin whereabouts unknown, attempted to enter Afghanistan

Sep 1, 2021
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

Aug 29, 2021
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

Aug 19, 2021
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

Aug 11, 2021
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

Jul 30, 2021
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

May 13, 2021
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

Mar 20, 2021
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

Mar 19, 2021
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House votes to reauthorize Violence Against Women Act

Mar 18, 2021
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

Feb 25, 2021
Truman ‘TL’ Leon Baker, Kiowa. (Photo by the Kiowa Tribe via Gaylord News)
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Record snow, cold kills Kiowa citizen

Feb 24, 2021
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

Feb 18, 2021
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

Jan 31, 2021
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

Jan 27, 2021
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

Jan 25, 2021
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

Jan 10, 2021
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

Jan 9, 2021
Kiowa Tribal Chairman Matthew Komalty. (Kiowa Tribe via Facebook)
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Kiowa chairman’s impeachment hearing delayed

Jul 30, 2020
Kiowa Tribal Chairman Matthew Komalty. (Kiowa Tribe via Facebook)
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Kiowas seeking to impeach chairman

Jul 26, 2020