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The U.S. Department of Agriculture announced it is doling out $2 million in grants to Oklahoma rural businesses, municipalities and the Cherokee Nation.
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The Cherokee Nation has announced plans to build new cell towers to expand service to rural communities across eastern Oklahoma.
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The State Board of Education was originally going to consider the course when members meet this week, but the new chair delayed its consideration.
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The Environmental Protection Agency is granting more than $8 million dollars to bolster Oklahoma tribal nations' recycling efforts.
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Last week, tribal nations and the national 988 suicide prevention hotline held a two-day summit focused on the mental health of tribal citizens.
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Native American communities often lack the resources to upgrade drinking and wastewater infrastructure. The Santee Sioux Nation in Nebraska is an extreme example — living without safe drinking water for four years.
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Lillie Morrell Burkhart was a wealthy Osage woman living near Ralston, Oklahoma in Pawnee County in the early 20th century. When she passed away in 1967, she had a will that clearly laid out her wishes: her home is to be kept as a shrine to her ancestor Chief White Hair. She left her land, her country house and her two headrights to the Oklahoma Historical Society. In KOSU’s third story in a series about her legacy, what would happen to that home and everything inside it would be at the center of a lengthy court battle involving relatives who were upset that Osage wealth would be leaving Osage hands once again.
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Larney, a Choctaw of Oklahoma and a Seminole Nation citizen, explores in his work the intersection of racial identity, cultural struggles, and the history of his native nations.
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The Kansas Board of Education is calling on the state’s public schools to eliminate Native American-themed mascots within five years.
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An advisory group created by the Kansas Board of Education wants the board to recommend ending Native American mascots statewide — a move sure to trigger anger and defensiveness in communities long wedded to school traditions.