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

Gaylord News

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

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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...

Citizen Potawatomi Community Development Corporation Building

“Access to capital”: Oklahoma tribes are recipients of federal money to help tribal small businesses

Dacoda McDowell-Wahpekeche June 28, 2023

WASHINGTON – Three Oklahoma tribal nations will receive almost half the initial funding from a new small business initiative from the Biden-Harris Administration announced this week. The Osage, Chickasaw...

Tourists had control of the plaza in front of the U.S. Supreme Court Thursday rather than dueling press conferences as had been the case in last fall’s arguments over the constitutionality of the Indian Child Welfare Act.  (Ben Dackiw photo/Gaylord News)

Tribal Win: Native children to stay with Native families, Supreme Court rules

Dacoda McDowell-Wahpekeche June 15, 2023

A preference for Native American families adopting Native children was preserved after the Supreme Court on Thursday upheld a landmark Indigenous law. In a decisive 7-2 ruling involving a Fort Worth...

Jill Momaday stands next to a poster honoring her father, Pulitzer Prize-winning Kiowa author N. Scott Momaday, and adjacent to the engraved floor stone near the entrance of the Oklahoma History Center. (Gaylord News Photo/Katie Hallum)

Native American storytelling cemented with N. Scott Momaday ceremony

Katie Hallum June 2, 2023

The importance of Native American storytelling was cemented on Thursday when Oklahoma’s preeminent history museum dedicated a Legacy Stone in honor of Pulitzer Prize-winning Kiowa author N. Scott Momaday. Momaday,...

Choctaw artist D.G. Smalling honors Delaware Nation with artwork. Photo courtesy Delaware Nation.

Cherokee Chief Hoskin, other tribal leaders hope to improve Indian Arts and Crafts Act

Blake Mullen May 22, 2023

WASHINGTON — Native American artists say they continue to struggle with the theft of their work, and tribal leaders are urging Congress to strengthen the Indian Arts and Crafts Act. IACA was passed...

Drums at the Voices from the Drum Exhibit at the First Americans Museum. (Gaylord News photo/Jay Toyebo)

Drums represent life, Osage artists say

Jay Toyebo March 28, 2023

OKLAHOMA CITY — The Voices from the Drum exhibit at First Americans Museum  is designed to teach about community and spirituality in the Osage Nation. It might look like a typical art exhibition,...

Lane Factor, second from right, with members of the Reservation Dogs cast.  (Photo courtesy FX)

Oklahoma Star Lane Factors Talks Reservation Dogs Television’s Breakthrough of Native American Representation

Annabella Potts March 17, 2023

It will be another five months before the third season of the hit television series “Reservation Dogs,” filmed in Oklahoma airs. But the theme of bringing together classic Native American actors...

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