Cherokee Nation News
January 24, 2020
OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla. — Three tribes filed a federal lawsuit today against Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt in an effort to end a long-simmering dispute over their casino-gaming compacts. The Cherokee, Chickasaw and Choctaw Nations filed the lawsuit in...
Cherokee Nation News
January 24, 2020
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt announced Friday the hiring of an out-of-state law firm to represent him in his ongoing dispute with Native American tribes over casino gambling.Stitt hired Seattle-based Perkins Coie to advise his offic...
Cherokee Nation News
January 24, 2020
OKLAHOMA CITY – In response to the Cherokee, Choctaw and Chickasaw nations filing a lawsuit to determine whether the casino gaming compact with the state has renewed, Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt is reportedly using funds generated by tribal gaming to h...
Cherokee Nation News
January 24, 2020
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — An Oklahoma-based Indian tribe unanimously approved a $500,000 supplemental appropriation for expenses related to the lawsuit against Gov. Kevin Stitt over his claim that the state's gaming compacts have expired.The Muscogee (Cre...
Native American News
January 24, 2020
TOKSOOK BAY, Alaska — One day after celebrating her 90th birthday, Lizzie Chimiugak became the first American citizen to formally be counted in the 2020 Census on Tuesday. Chimiugak, an Alaska Native was counted at her home in Toksook Bay, a remote A...
Native American News
January 23, 2020
‘alter-Native: Kitchen’ from Independent Lens by Native filmmaker Billy Luther highlights three Indigenous chefs Award-winning documentary filmmaker Billy Luther, Dine’, has recently released the latest in his alter-Native YouTube docuserie...
Native American News
January 23, 2020
WAUSAU, Wisc. — If Tricia Zunker fulfills her dream, she will be the third American Indian woman elected to Congress — and the first-ever in the state of Wisconsin. Zunker is running for a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives in the ...
Native American News
January 22, 2020
Last week, the Match-E-Be-Nash-She-Wish Band of Pottawatomi Indians (Gun Lake Tribe) and the Nottawaseppi Huron Band of Potawatomi Indians (Huron Potawatomi), announced they co-invested in the purchase of McKay Tower, an iconic 18-story buil...
Native American News
January 22, 2020
TORONTO — Apparel maker Canada Goose has launched a new collection for Project Atigi, a social entrepreneurship program featuring hand-crafted parkas by Inuit designers in Northern Canada. Established in 2019, Project Atigi celeb...
Native American News
January 22, 2020
HARDIN, Mont. — Big Horn County Sheriff Lawrence C. Big Hair announced that the body of Selena Faye Not Afraid was found by the Department of the Interior search team on Monday morning. The 16-year-old teen went missing on New Year’s Day when s...
Native American News
January 22, 2020
Casino The Pamunkey Indian Tribe on Friday announced plans to develop a $350 million casino resort in Richmond, Va. and another in Norfolk, according to a report by the Associated Press. In a statement, the Pamunkey Tribe said it purchased three ...
Cherokee Nation News
January 20, 2020
TAHLEQUAH – The Cherokee Nation honored four veterans, three of them brothers, with Medals of Patriotism at the Jan. 13 Tribal Council meeting. Jack Crittenden, 86, of Tahlequah; Roger Jennings, 70, of Stillwater; Stephen Jennings, 78, of Pryor;...
