Otoe-Missouria Tribe

Indigenous people are more likely to be the victims of violent crime than people of other races in the U.S., according to FBI data. But a Department of Homeland Security grant is helping the Otoe-Missouria tribe lower those risks.

A lawsuit filed by Otoe-Missouria citizen and Osage descendant Lena Black was voluntarily dismissed with prejudice last week, meaning the case is permanently closed.

The U.S. Department of the Interior is investing almost $40 million to plug and clean up abandoned oil and gas wells in tribal communities across the country.

Documents obtained by KOSU show Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt has retained outside legal counsel in an effort to advance contested gaming compacts with four Oklahoma tribes, and state legislative leaders didn’t know anything about it.

For nearly 200 years, Sept. 21 marked the day the Otoe-Missouria tribe was forced out of their lands, which would later become the city of Lincoln, Neb. Now the tribe hopes the day with serve as an annual reminder of reconciliation.

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