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$1 coin, quarter celebrate legendary Osage ballerina
By Cheyenne Leach
The U.S. Mint released a new $1 coin this month, featuring five Native American women known as the Five Moons Ballerinas.
In the foreground of the coin is Osage ballerina Maria Tallchief behind the rest of the ‘Five Moons Ballerinas,’ on this year's $1
Osage officials and producers reject proposed DOI rules for oil and gas mining
Standing Bear: ‘The proposed rules are too long, too detailed and too complicated’
Written by Shannon Shaw Duty
SKIATOOK, Okla. – It’s clear the officials of the Osage Nation, the Osage Minerals Council and the oil and gas producers of Osage County, soundly reject the U.S. Department of Interior’
Post-Roe, a new landscape for Native Americans seeking abortion
By: Associated Press
A few months after South Dakota banned abortion last year, April Matson drove more than nine hours to take a friend to a Colorado clinic to have the procedure.
The trip brought back difficult memories of Matson’s own abortion at the same clinic in 2016. The
Goodrich inducted into Hall of Fame
Angel Goodrich will be inducted into the National American Indigenous Athletics Hall of Fame this year.
Born in Glendale, Arizona, to parents Jonathan and Fayth Lewis. She has two siblings, an older brother Zach and a younger sister Nikki. She is a member of the United Keetoowah Band of Cherokee
Indigenous charter school seeking answers to state termination notice
By Dacoda McDowell-Wahpekeche
Sovereign Community School is looking for ways to continue teaching Native American youth after being notified their funding could end in June.
Members of the State Board of Education voted Jan. 26 to issue a notice of termination, which could close the school if a new sponsor
Not mentioned in Gov. Stitt's State of the State address: Oklahoma and tribal-state relations
By Allison Herrera
After nearly three years of tense relations with tribal leaders over the model gaming compact and the landmark Supreme Court decision in McGirt v. Oklahoma, Gov. Kevin Stitt didn't talk about Oklahoma's 39 federally recognized tribes during his annual State of the State
FHWA Announces $21 Million in Grant Awards for Tribal Transportation Safety Improvements From President’s Bipartisan Infrastructure Law
WASHINGTON -- As part of the U.S. Department of Transportation’s commitment to reducing roadway fatalities, the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) today announced that 70 Tribes will receive approximately $21 million for 93 projects that improve road safety on Tribal lands. Traffic crashes occur more frequently in Tribal and