WASHINGTON -- Oklahoma’s senior senator on Thursday called on President Biden to roll back his mandate requiring federal employees and contractors to become fully vaccinated by the new deadline of Jan....
Oklahoma was the first U.S. state to legalize lethal injection for executions as an alternative to electrocution, hanging and the firing squad, but lethal injections are now being referred to as just as...
Cheyenne and Arapaho Gov. Reggie Wassana and Lt. Gov. Gib Miles won the Nov. 2 general election by a landslide, the first time the tribe has reelected its governor.
The Wassana and Miles team received...
Oklahoma tribal public safety officials say the U.S. Supreme Court’s McGirt ruling is strengthening momentum for improvements to public safety infrastructure in their police departments.
The Choctaw...
In the United States alone, domestic violence impacts more than 10 million people every year. Organizations such as the National Network to End Domestic Violence are working to educate the public on how...
WASHINGTON -- Was John Grant’s execution botched?
Oklahoma officials say it wasn’t, but the executive director of the Death Penalty Information Center in Washington, D.C.,says it was worse than...
University of Oklahoma student, Ally Stephens, survived a nationally publicized case of domestic violence last year and is now working to bring awareness to the serious issue.
“I would like to say...
Cherokee tribal member and Freedmen descendant Marilyn Vann said a number of factors make her suited for her new position as the tribe’s environmental protection commissioner.
She said she graduated,...
Freedmen descendants in Oklahoma tribes are hoping to see an increase in healthcare access and eligibility by the Indian Health Service.
One Freedmen activist group is continuing the battle for equal...
The design has been chosen for the new Wilma Mankiller quarter, the third coin of the American Women’s Quarters program, that will begin circulating in 2022.
The selection of Mankiller, who was...
For Muscogee Nation citizen and Freedman descendant Eli Grayson, Indigenous Peoples’ Day brings a personal upset around the issue of tribal sovereignty.
Grayson, 59 is a retired interior designer...
WASHINGTON -- Oklahoma Indigenous activists came to the nation’s capital this week to urge President Biden to stop all fossil fuel projects and declare a climate emergency.
Casey Camp-Horinek, councilwoman...
