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Oklahoman For more than a century, cinema has been a favored American way to tell stories of different peoples and cultures.  But the mainstream movie industry hasn't always treated Native American stories fairly or authentically.  "If you look at Native representation in history, it's been pretty bad. So, almost showing any truthful, real version of Native people is humanizing. ... I think anytime we show Native people kind of on their terms and in their environments, we're humanizing (them) on the screen and we're changing the narrative that history has kind of laid on us — history and ...

Choctaw Nation is an economic driver for southeastern Oklahoma Jim Stafford © PROVIDED/FSB The Choctaw Nation built its headquarters, cultural center and newly expanded casino resort in Durant. The Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma had a $2.5 billion economic impact in 2019 on the state of Oklahoma, the tribe reported in an economic impact report released in late February. The economic impact report, prepared by Dr. Kyle Dean, economist for Native American and Urban Studies at Oklahoma City University, showed the Choctaw Nation is one of the largest contributors to southeastern Ok...

Oklahoman Kay Bills was running an Alaska computer business she opened in 1991 when a family friend visited and advised her that as a member of the Osage Nation she might qualify for a little-known no-bid federal contracting program.  Bills didn’t follow up on that suggestion or to yet another query as to whether she had followed through on pursuing what is known as an “8a” contract. The friend, Donna Martin, had a construction company that had qualified, and on her third visit with Bills, she provided her a name and number to call.  “I had an off day, and I went to the SBA (Sm...

Congress and the Biden administration could be key players as Native American tribes and Oklahoma leaders sort out the McGirt ruling implications.

Pawnees in Oklahoma work to save sacred, symbolic seeds Carla Hinton, Oklahoman © The Oklahoman Archive Deb Echo-Hawk, director of the Pawnee Seed Preservation Project, examines corn with Ronnie O'Brien as the two stand in the Pawnee Nation Round House during the 2018 Seed Preservation Project reveal in Pawnee. PAWNEE — Each ear of corn was sacred and symbolic. The husks were gently peeled from the kernels by a group of Pawnee Indians who gathered in 2018 at the Pawnee Nation Round House. The treasure they discovered gleamed for all to see — blue-speckled corn, and cor...