On June 3, 2025, VNN | VNN Oklahoma President and CEO Kelly Tidwell (Muscogee and Cherokee) sent the following letter to Tulsa Mayor Monroe Nichols, requesting a meeting to discuss how the City plans to acknowledge and respond to the injustice it helped facilitate against Indigenous people during the Allotment and
Legal advocates say a policy known as prison gerrymandering in Oklahoma is allowing communities with prisons to be overrepresented in legislative districts. (OKLAHOMA) Every ten years the U.S. Census counts how large the population is in each city and county in the country. The results of the census determine
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Written By: Brittany Harlow, Rachael Schuit Editor's Note: This story has been updated to include information after lawmakers voted to override Governor Kevin Stitt's veto of House Bill 1137. (OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla.) Update: Tribal leaders from across the state are praising lawmakers for taking action to
Written By: Rachael Schuit Native Commerce News is sponsored by the American Indian Chamber of Commerce of Oklahoma (AICCO), dedicated to expanding Indian Country commerce across the globe. (CHOCTAW RESERVATION) Cryptocurrency lovers are now able to utilize crypto and digital assets as a source of cash flow when gaming at
(NATIONAL) The Indian Boarding School Era lasted over a century. It was a time of forced assimilation of Native American children and the attempted erasure of Native American culture, often at the protest of their families and communities. Thousands of children are believed to have died during the process. But
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Written By: Chelsea T. Hicks | Osage News (OSAGE RESERVATION) Amidst cases of Missing and Murdered Indigenous People (MMIP), it is uncommon for missing persons to be unhoused, according to Olivia Gray, who is the chair of Northeastern Oklahoma Indigenous Safety and Education’s (NOISE) Board of Directors. Read this story
“So you're, A, not getting paid for the work that you've been doing, and B, having to take away time from providing care to patients…” One year after VNN Oklahoma interviewed two mental health professionals about Oklahoma’s transition to Managed Care Oklahoma (MCO) for its
(CASS LAKE, Minn.) Native American tribes have lived on lands across the United States for centuries, continuing to honor their cultural traditions and deep connection to the land and its resources. As modern development increasingly encroaches on these areas, preserving cultural sites has become the driving mission for Jim Jones,
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Photo Courtesy: Library of Congress USA The allotment era and the guardianship system was a tragic period of time for Native Americans in Oklahoma, including young children who had wealth. (MCCURTAIN COUNTY, Okla.) Ledcie Stechi was just seven years old when she died on August 15, 1923, in Goodwater, Oklahoma
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Photo Courtesy: Trista Vaughn/Library of Congress (TULSA, Okla.) The modern Missing and Murdered Indigenous People (MMIP) movement began gaining ground in the 1980s, largely relating to public outcry of Indigenous disappearances and deaths from the Highway of Tears in British Columbia. Before long, the movement made its way to
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Written By Allison Herrera A newly acquired archive gives clues about what happened to Indian land and wealth after Oklahoma statehood in 1907. VNN Oklahoma is sharing those stories in a new series that puts names and faces to them. (TULSA, Okla.) In 1923, Martha Axe Roberts (Washington) was searching
Oklahoma has one of the lowest voter turnouts in the country. However, advocates are working hard to get more Native American voters in the state to the polls. (OKLAHOMA) The state of Oklahoma had the second to lowest voter turnout rate for the 2024 General Election. According to the University