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Oklahoma Attorney General Gentner Drummond announced the launch of a task force dedicated to addressing the MMIP, or Missing Murdered Indigenous Peoples, crisis during the United Indian Nations of Oklahoma annual meeting on Thursday.

A new documentary about the story of Indigenous efforts to restore bison is airing across the country in select theaters, including in Oklahoma.

Between 1999 and 2019, the increase in Indigenous pregnant women dying in Kansas was among the worst in the country. Kansas women are training more doulas to help expecting Native moms through pregnancy and birth.

Oklahoma's Native American communities could lose $3 billion in funding for essential services due to the Trump administration's proposed mass grant freeze, according to a new report.

The long-awaited vote survived objections from the panel's most right-leaning Republicans, who criticized the lessons as "un-American woke indoctrination."

Oklahoma tribal leaders celebrated a report revealing the tribes directly contributed $12.7 billion to the state's economy in 2023.

The Wichita and Affiliated Tribes, headquartered in Anadarko, and the Washoe Tribe of Nevada and California filed a legal complaint last week to hold the United States accountable for the federal Indian boarding school system and its policies.

Heirs of over 17,000 deceased Individual Indian Money account holders have until June 30 to claim compensation.

The Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes, a Native American nation in Oklahoma, is trying to negotiate with the Trump administration to see if it can help win back a piece of land that was taken over by the federal government more than 150 years ago.

Indigenous health experts and providers say despite their outreach, people can fall through the cracks for several reasons.