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In 2021 at age 14, Cherokee Nation citizen and singer-songwriter Hailee Toney was wanting to release her first song as a single.

Chief Nick Bowles says they want graduates and their families to celebrate the momentous occasion, but he wants to see it happen safely and responsibly.

Obtaining recognition by the Texas Historical Commission for the holy grounds on which many of their ancestors have been buried over the past 170 years was a reason for Panola

After 22 weeks in solitary confinement, a former U.S. Senator and member of the...

My history writing buddy, Marvin Gorley, has never understood my dislike of this county being named for Mirabeau Buonaparte Lamar, even though our most famous artist alumnus, William Henry Huddle, and his cousin, F.J. Fisher, painted both the former Republic of Texas president and his brother, Lucius Cincinnatus Lamar. But, there are many negatives with the personality and actions of the president, not to mention Parisians and even those from his home area of Richmond, Texas, have never been ab...

Cherokees wlecome back troubled Raven Bartee Haile / History columnist FacebookTwitterEmail During the first week of April 1829, Sam Houston sent his teenaged bride home to mother, decided to resign as governor of Tennessee and prepared for a self-imposed exile among his boyhood friends, the Cherokees. Twenty years earlier, the 16-year-old had rebelled against his older brothers’ plans for his future, which included clerking in a general store, by running away. He found refuge among the neigh...