Poultry legal motion is hardly just a ploy Tue, Nov 18, 2008 | Comments 2 Regarding "Poultry legal motion is just another ploy” (Opinion, Nov. 8): This motion is not an 11th-hour tactical maneuver. The poultry companies have maintained from the start that the...

Tobacco pact: Nontribal retailers feel the pinch Mon, Nov 17, 2008 | Comments 10 Vance McSpadden, head of the Oklahoma Petroleum Marketers and Convenience Store Association, wrote in The Oklahoman recently that tobacco compacts with some Indian tribes weren’t working as...

CAMPUS BRIEFS Mon, Nov 17, 2008 | Add a comment OKLAHOMA CITY Rally is for free tuition Oklahoma City Community College is kicking off this year’s free tuition program with a pep rally Wednesday at Southeast High School. The rally starts...

IN BRIEF: Public meetings planned on transit in Oklahoma Sat, Nov 15, 2008 Public meetings planned on transit The transit division of the Oklahoma Department of Transportation will host six public meetings to get input on transit programs. ODOT is asking the public as...

IN Brief: Lawton warehouse gets new site Sat, Nov 15, 2008 | Add a comment In brief LAWTON Warehouse gets new site Officials at Fort Sill plan to find a new location for a proposed warehouse that was the subject of a lawsuit by a Lawton-based American Indian tribe that...

State’s roughnecks flock to potential oil jackpot Sun, Nov 16, 2008 | Add a comment PARSHALL, N.D. — In this tiny reservation town a hundred miles from the Canadian border where temperatures once hit 60-below zero, a Southern twang is sometimes heard over the din at the...

Cherokee Nation to gamble on Hard Rock partnership Fri, Nov 14, 2008 | Comments 6 CATOOSA — The Cherokee Nation is between a resort expansion and a Hard Rock place. Its flagship hotel and casino will get the Hard Rock brand under an agreement between Las Vegas-based Hard...

PBS to do documentary on Cherokee language program Fri, Nov 14, 2008 | Add a comment TAHLEQUAH -- A program that teaches the Cherokee language to Cherokee children will be featured in a PBS documentary. A film crew and producer for "We Shall Remain" were in Tahlequah Thursday to...

Tulsa resort to be named Hard Rock Casino Fri, Nov 14, 2008 | Comments 8 TULSA -- The Cherokee Nation is planning to brand its expanded 19-story hotel and casino near Tulsa as the Hard Rock Casino Tulsa. Cherokee Nation Enterprises announced Friday a license agreement...

New Indian gaming regulations lamented by Oklahoma lawmakers Fri, Nov 14, 2008 | Comments 5 TULSA -- New federal regulations on electronic bingo games will cost Oklahoma's tribal casinos millions of dollars more than a flawed economic study predicted, the head of the Oklahoma Indian...

Southern Baptist leader in Broken Arrow plans an awakening Tue, Nov 11, 2008 | Comments 8 BROKEN ARROW — The Rev. Emerson Falls on Tuesday became the first American Indian to be elected president of the Baptist General Convention of Oklahoma. Falls, 60, called the win "a...

Oklahoma Briefs Wed, Nov 12, 2008 | Add a comment OKLAHOMA POLICE IDENTIFY CRASH VICTIM LAHOMA — Police have identified a woman killed after her pickup crashed into gas pumps causing an explosion outside a store in Lahoma. Authorities said...

Emerson Falls elected president of Baptist General Convention Tue, Nov 11, 2008 | Comments 5 BROKEN ARROW -- The Rev. Emerson Falls of Oklahoma City was elected president of the Baptist General Convention of Oklahoma today in Broken Arrow. Leaders of the convention, which represents the...

Oklahoma Education Briefs Sun, Nov 9, 2008 | Add a comment EDUCATION Tribal college sets course list WEATHERFORD — Several courses that will be offered by the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribal College during the 2009 spring semester have been announced....

Event helps Oklahoma veterans Sat, Nov 8, 2008 | Add a comment EVENT HELPS VETERANS Running ahead for a causeRiverside Indian School in Anadarko will host the 14th Veterans Day Eagle Staff Run at noon Tuesday. The run starts at the National Hall of Fame for...

Poultry legal motion is just another ploy Fri, Nov 7, 2008 | Add a comment The recent motion by Arkansas poultry companies to dismiss Oklahoma’s lawsuit against them, questioning whether Oklahoma has sufficient standing to bring a lawsuit after three years of...

Nontribal retailers not getting fair shake Thu, Nov 6, 2008 | Comments 1 The 1996 Oklahoma gasoline compacts with American Indian tribes are still working; however the tobacco compacts have become a big problem. Nontribal retail stores have suffered since the 2005...

2008 Film Preservation Festival celebrates American Indian culture Fri, Nov 7, 2008 | Add a comment To commemorate National American Indian Heritage Month, the Oklahoma City Museum of Art is joining University of Central Oklahoma Film Studies, the American Indian Cultural Center and the Film and...

Rosella Hightower, American Indian ballerina from Oklahoma, dies at 88 in France Wed, Nov 5, 2008 | Add a comment Rosella Hightower, one of Oklahoma’s five American Indian ballerinas, died Tuesday at her home in Cannes, France. She was 88. Born in Durwood in 1920, Hightower pursued a career in ballet...

Native American festival in Norman to feature sports, stories Wed, Nov 5, 2008 | Add a comment NORMAN — People will celebrate Oklahoma’s American Indian culture and the achievements of its athletes during the fourth annual Native American Cultural Festival from 1 to 6 p.m. Sunday...