Top Oklahoma lawmakers say new state-tribal compacts negotiated by the governor are welcome signs of progress. But many more agreements still need to be worked out by the end of the year, and it ...

The plan to create a trail was initially approved in 2023, with the aim to connect 13 historically Black towns and significant Civil Rights locations.

HOMINY, OKLA.— Cole McKinney leapt onto the edge of a metal fence and began banging its side, trying to spook a nearly 700-pound bison into turning around inside its pen. But the bison repeatedly ...

Oklahoma tribes need more money from Congress to expand and maintain their criminal justice systems almost four years after the McGirt v. Oklahoma ruling, representatives of the Cherokee and Muscogee ...

The University of Oklahoma’s Native Nations Center for Tribal Policy Research recently named Grace Fox as its first tribal ...

First American tribal nations in Oklahoma contributed $23.4 billion to the state's economy in 2023, according to a new study released Wednesday. This press release ...

Three American Indian tribes have filed a federal lawsuit disputing an Oklahoma Wildlife Conservation policy prosecuting tribal members for hunting or fishing on Indian reservations without a state ...

U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson announced more than $655 million in Indian Housing Block Grants (IHBG) to Native American Tribes in 38 States on Tuesday. Indian ...

As Native American Heritage Month draws to a close, we recognize that this country's history with Native tribes is not all positive. Some of that history is hard to share.

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt’s ongoing feud with many of the Native American tribes in the state has grown so contentious that fellow Republicans in the Legislature and the state’s ...