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Native Americans in the United States experience higher rates of mental health issues than their white counterparts. Texas Native Health is expanding mental health services to meet the needs in the state.
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The new film adaptation of Killers of the Flower Moon is already starting conversations about how history should be discussed and remembered in Oklahoma. The movie — set to break out in wide release this fall — could change the way people in the state talk about Oklahoma's past.
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The Indian Child Welfare Act, or ICWA, is often referred to as the gold standard of child welfare. The high court's ruling is a win for tribal sovereignty.
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William Norman, an Oklahoma City based attorney from Hobbs, Straus, Dean and Walker says the political climate has given conservative groups an opening to undo decades of federal Indian law.
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The Cherokee Nation is stepping in to make sure their tribal citizens don't lose Medicaid coverage as the public health emergency expires.
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The Cherokee Nation is giving one-time $600 relief payments to farmworkers and meatpackers who worked during the pandemic through the Farm and Food Workers Relief Program.
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Late last month, the Oklahoma Supreme Court issued a controversial opinion on the federal 1978 Indian Child Welfare Act, which gives the state the authority to intervene in the custody of Indian children, even if they live on a reservation that is not their own.
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A bill that would guarantee Oklahoma students the right to wear tribal regalia at graduation advances after similar ones failed previously.
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Two federal efforts — one in Congress and one at the U.S. Interior Department — could affect the search for marked and unmarked graves at the Shawnee Indian Mission in Fairway and Haskell University in Lawrence.
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The Texas Tribal Buffalo Project aims to use the herd to renew the spiritual connection between the buffalo and the Lipan Apache.