Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes

Earlier this year, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. rescinded Indian Health System layoffs and pledged to prioritize tribes. Despite this, a March press release from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has tribes concerned.

On a large plot of land outside the small town of Concho, the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes manage hundreds of bison. But one member of the herd has a special place in his keeper’s hearts.

Three tribal nations and five affected students are suing the Secretary of the Interior, Assistant Secretary of Indian Affairs and the Director of the Bureau of Indian Education over slashes to the Bureau of Indian Education.

19 Seminole, Cheyenne and Arapaho children who were subjected to assimilation at Carlisle Indian Boarding School will finally return to the earth on their homelands in the fall.

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.

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

The federal parks officials who run a Florida historical site are changing the narrative about it and bringing that narrative to Oklahoma. Tribal nations in Oklahoma are vital to preserving that memory

New guidelines for the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act mean Oklahoma tribal nations are renewing efforts to reclaim cultural items.

There are about 650 bison in the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes’ herd near Concho and recently, they received federal money to continue its growth.

This episode of Focus: Black Oklahoma features reports on the case of a Black man shot and killed in Norman, what candidates are filing for office in 2022 and firefighters of the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes defending western Oklahoma from wildfires.