Cherokee Nation

Job Corps Centers across the country are scrambling after a district judge temporarily blocked the Trump administration’s order to close them. That includes a trio of centers in Oklahoma.

The U.S. Department of the Interior issued an opinion in January stating the United Keetoowah Band (UKB) is an equal successor to the Cherokee Nation’s reservation and granting the tribe the right to build a casino.

The Cherokee Nation celebrated its $23.8 million investment in improving water quality and accessibility across its reservation through the Wilma P. Mankiller and Charlie Soap Water Act last week.

Northeast Oklahoma District Attorneys Matthew Ballard (District 12) and Carol Iski (District 25) have filed parallel motions of dismissal for a lawsuit filed against them from the Department of Justice.

The Cherokee Nation’s Seed Bank is offering tribal citizens an opportunity to grow a piece of their culture through a variety of heirloom seeds.

Federal offices crucial to Indigenous success — Bureau of Indian Affairs, Bureau of Indian Education, Department of the Interior and others— are undergoing layoffs. The Trump administration’s decision to empty those seats will trickle down into Indigenous communities in Oklahoma.

UKB members gathered in Tahlequah to celebrate the historic legal opinion.

Oklahoma was home to an estimated 83 Indian boarding schools — the most in the country. These schools were popular in the early 20th century and had a genocidal campaign known under its unofficial slogan, “kill the Indian, save the man.”

A 25-year-old Cherokee woman named Aubrey Dameron went missing in the spring of 2019. The Oklahoma Medical Examiner's Office has identified a body recovered last week as Dameron.

Gov. Kevin Stitt’s seventh State of the State address noticeably made little mention of Oklahoma’s tribal nations, unlike in years past.