Katie Hallum (ᏧᏟ)
Indigenous Affairs reporterKatie Hallum (ᏧᏟ) covers Indigenous Affairs at KOSU.
She joined the team in April 2024 after working at KGOU in Norman as a host and producer for All Things Considered and Here & Now. During her time there, she received several awards, including Best Newscast in the 2024 Broadcast Education Association Festival of Media Arts.
A citizen of the Cherokee Nation, Katie grew up in Tahlequah and attended Sequoyah High School. As a student pursuing degrees in Journalism and International Security at the University of Oklahoma, she worked for The OU Daily and Gaylord News covering tribal affairs, health care and politics. She briefly spent time at OU Nightly as their floor director.
Her Cherokee name is ᏧᏟ, which means "Fox."
When Katie is not reporting, she is a patient advocate and ambassador for the American Kidney Fund. As an organ recipient, she travels as a keynote speaker for medical research conferences discussing the future of innovation in solid organ transplantation.
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The Claremore Indian Hospital has served northeastern tribal patients since 1930. Now, the Cherokee Nation is proposing a $255.5 million investment to replace its aging facilities. -
House Bill 1137, authored by Choctaw citizen Rep. Ronald Stewart, D-Tulsa, was an amendment to Ida’s Law, which provided tribal liaisons to the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigations for MMIP cases. It would’ve removed the federal funding requirement, allowing the state to fund the office instead. -
KOSU’s Indigenous reporter Katie Hallum is conducting a survey to understand what Oklahomans were taught about Native American history in public schools. -
In a major step in the United Keetoowah Band’s battle to rebuild a casino, the tribe signed the Model Tribal Gaming Compact with the state of Oklahoma. It now awaits federal approval. -
As people gathered around the Oklahoma Capitol to support victims and their families, Gov. Kevin Stitt vetoed a bill tweaking a law he signed to help solve the Missing and Murdered Indigenous People crisis. -
Tribal nations, advocacy organizations and state agencies gathered at the front steps of the Oklahoma State Capitol Monday to raise awareness and advocate for support of the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Peoples (MMIP) crisis. -
Gilcrease Museum in Tulsa is repatriating thousands of Native items, including human remains, back to Oklahoma tribes. -
The attorney for the man behind the landmark McGirt v. Oklahoma U.S. Supreme Court case is requesting that his mental competency be evaluated in court filings. -
The State of Oklahoma is asking a federal judge to keep an Osage County wind farm operational, despite being ordered to dismantle it late last year. -
A federal judge has declined to grant a Muscogee Nation request to stop Tulsa law enforcement from arresting or issuing citations to tribal nation citizens.
