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Gaylord News is a reporting project of the University of Oklahoma Gaylord College of Journalism and Mass Communication

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Gaylord News is a reporting project of the University of Oklahoma Gaylord College of Journalism and Mass Communication

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Cherokee Nation Chief Chuck Hoskin Jr. takes a photo with President Joe Biden at the 2024 White House Tribal Nations Summit. During the summit, Biden announced a 10-year plan for Native American language revitalization.

‘They didn’t forget Indian Country’: Tribal leaders and scholars reflect on Biden administration

Kevin Eagleson December 17, 2024

WASHINGTON – Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland didn’t mince any words when she called Pres. Joe Biden the best president for Indian Country of her lifetime during this year’s final White House...

Rep. Tom Cole (R-Moore) reaffirmed his commitment to solving the missing and murdered Indigenous persons crisis. Cole is Chickasaw and the first Indigenous American to chair the House Appropriations Committee.

Cole reaffirms commitment to solving missing and murdered Indigenous persons crisis

Kevin Eagleson November 26, 2024

There are 86 missing Indigenous persons in Oklahoma, according to data from the National Missing and Unidentified Persons Systems. At a Nov. 20 House Committee on Appropriations, Subcommittee on Interior,...

Congressional candidates’ campaign committees submitted their pre-general election financial disclosures showing their contributions and expenditures. Most of Oklahoma’s incumbents are outspending and outraising their opponents from Oct. 1 to Oct. 16.

Incumbent Oklahoma delegation holds big financial advantage over opponents

Kevin Eagleson November 1, 2024

Most of Oklahoma’s Congressional incumbents are out fundraising their opponents during the final stretch of the campaign. They are also all outspending their opponents. Why it matters: Candidates...

According to research by the Department of Interior’s Federal Indian Boarding School Initiative, before 1969, there were 451 Federal  Indian Boarding Schools, 87 of which were in Oklahoma. //Kevin Eagleson Gaylord News

Oklahoma Native leaders react to historic Presidential apology

Kevin Eagleson October 30, 2024

Oklahoma tribal leaders say they are pleased with President Joe Biden’s apology for the forced removal over 100 years of Indigenous children from their families and tribes to Federal Indian Boarding...

Dora Morning, a member of the Cheyenne Nation, is buried in the Carlisle Indian Cemetery on the former grounds of the Carlisle Indian Industrial School, where she died in 1885.  The Carlisle Indian Industrial School sits on the grounds of the present-day U.S. Army War College. Photo by Addison Kliewer/Gaylord News.

Services Saturday for 15-year-old Wichita child who died at Carlisle boarding school

Analyse Jester September 20, 2024

Leaders of the Wichita and Affiliated Tribes in Anadarko, who have been waiting for the return of its children who died at an Indian boarding school in Pennsylvania, were excited that two of those who...

Native American students at Seneca Indian Boarding School from a number of local tribes gather for a class photograph, taken around 1905 by Charles R. Scott, an employee of the school. Courtesy of National Archives and Records Administration

Interior department concludes investigation of Indian Residential Schools; the test of resilience

Madeline Hoffmann and Gigi Sieke August 2, 2024

WASHINGTON – Osage and Kickapoo citizen Joey Allen still recalls the stories of abuse from the days when he attended the Seneca Indian School in Wyandotte, Oklahoma. “I talked to a girl one time,...

Students, parents and staff at the Osage Nation Education Department FAFSA ID and College Application Night./Courtesy the Osage Nation Education Department

Rollout of new financial aid form stunting plans for fall semester

Gigi Sieke June 26, 2024

WASHINGTON – Daniel Adeleye wasn’t planning on taking a gap year after his May 16 graduation from Mustang High School. But a botched FAFSA rollout is forcing him and thousands of other 2024 Oklahoma...

From left,  Siyu Zhu, Codie Horse-Topetchy, Sebastian C. Ferraro and Haifan Xiao accept first- place honors at the University of Oklahoma’s Graduate Student and Postdoctoral Research and Activity Day on March 1 for their poster over the study. (Photo courtesy of Siyu Zhu)

Study finds climate change intensifies hazard risk for Okahoma’s Native Americans

Kayden Anderson June 24, 2024

NORMAN, Okla. - A recent study by University of Oklahoma researchers concludes that climate change is likely to intensify hazard risk and social injustice for Native Americans, who make up the most vulnerable...

House Republicans voted Wednesday to ratify U.S. Rep. Tom Cole as the new chairman of the House Appropriations Committee. Photo courtesy of Cole’s office.

Rep. Tom Cole first Native American to chair House Appropriations Committee

Katrina Crumbacher April 10, 2024

U.S. Rep. Tom Cole, a citizen of the Chickasaw Nation, has become the first Native American to chair the House Appropriations Committee and the first congressional member representing Oklahoma to do so....

NASA’s first Indigenous woman in space, Marine Col. Nicole A. Mann, speaks to students and faculty at Estrella Mountain Community College about the barriers she broke down as an Indigenous woman at NASA at EMCC’s performing arts center in Avondale on March 26, 2024. Mann encouraged students not to let acceptance rates and doubt stop them from reaching their full potential. (Photo by Kayla Mae Jackson/Cronkite News)

The first Indigenous woman in space never planned on becoming an astronaut

David Ulloa Jr. April 9, 2024

AVONDALE, ARIZONA – Estrella Mountain Community College celebrated Women’s History Month by hosting an event on March 27. Marine Col. Nicole Mann, a member of the Wailacki tribe of the Round Valley...

Administrative Assistant Ashlee Culliver has been with the sheriff’s office for less than a year so never worked across the room from the likeness of George Armstrong Custer. A portrait of Arapaho Chief Moses Starr now hangs in its place. (Photo by Kimberly Burk)

Custer County likely here to stay, but other new names are happening

Kimberly Burk April 5, 2024

ARAPAHO, OK -- It’s likely that nobody put up a fight when Custer County was named in 1896, just a couple months short of the 20th anniversary of the Battle of the Little Bighorn. Cheyenne and Arapaho...

President Joe Biden speaks to the crowd at the 2023 White House Tribal Nations Summit before signing executive order on easier access to federal funding and investing funds for Native Americans. Gaylord News/Julia Manipella

Biden signs executive order sending U.S. toward a new era of tribal sovereignty

Maddy Keyes December 6, 2023

WASHINGTON — The beat of drums echoed off the walls of the Department of the Interior auditorium as members of the Native American Women Warriors Color Guard moved toward the stage with tribal flags...

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