WASHINGTON – Legislation aiming to turn over a federal food distribution program to tribal communities has been introduced by Oklahoma’s two most senior House members, one of who is the chair of the...
WASHINGTON—Native Americans secured exemptions from new Medicaid work requirements and stepped-up eligibility checks under President Donald Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill,” a move tribal leaders...
WASHINGTON—Oklahoma energy executive Usha-Maria Turner pledged Wednesday to strengthen the Environmental Protection Agency’s global and tribal partnerships if confirmed as Assistant Administrator of...
WASHINGTON—Kalyn Free, an Oklahoma Democrat and Choctaw tribal citizen, lost the Democratic National Committee vice chair revote Friday, falling short of Shasti Conrad, the Washington state Democratic...
WASHINGTON—Kalyn Free has positioned herself as a solitary figure in the renewed Democratic National Committee vice chair election, leveraging her background as an Oklahoma Democrat and a citizen of...
WASHINGTON—Kalyn Free, an Oklahoma Democrat and Choctaw tribal citizen, will move on to a runoff for a vice chair seat of the Democratic National Committee following Tuesday's vote, where no candidate...
WASHINGTON—Kalyn Free — a Native American attorney and longtime Oklahoma Democrat — is running again for DNC vice chair, hoping to reshape the party’s focus on rural and Indigenous communities...
WASHINGTON – U.S. Rep. Tom Cole (R, Moore), an enrolled member of the Chickasaw Nation, has spent 22 years in Congress fighting to protect tribal funding and says he won’t allow cuts to the Indian...
Oklahoma’s largest museum of natural history is also one of the largest holders of the remains of Native American and funerary objects in the country.
Now, 25 years after passage of law requiring...
Shortly before leaving office, President Joe Biden commuted Leonard Peltier’s life sentence to indefinite house arrest following decades of community activists fighting for his release.
“It’s...
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...
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,...
