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Complaints about inaccurate data in tracking MMIP cases in databases, such as the National Missing and Unidentified Persons Systems (Namus), have been a specific focus of an Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation unit.
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Tribal nations in Oklahoma have been recently awarded millions of dollars to boost reliable access to the internet in rural areas.
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The Oklahoma State Senate rejected a bill Wednesday that would have legalized sports betting for tribal nations across the state. The bill had garnered support from the Oklahoma City Thunder and the Oklahoma Indian Gaming Association one day earlier.
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Gov. Kevin Stitt vetoed a bill Monday that would extend the sunset date of the Oklahoma Advisory Council on Indian Education for five more years, calling the council "redundant" and "dormant."
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The head of the Cherokee Nation will not be invited back to speak on the House floor after he took a “political position” defending Medicaid expansion, the House speaker said Thursday.
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The leader of the Cherokee Nation vowed to fight to protect Medicaid expansion as Republicans legislators move to make substantial changes to it.
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The U.S. Supreme Court declined to review Stroble v. Oklahoma Monday. The decision likely means tribal citizens will need to continue paying state income tax.
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The Choctaw Nation announced last week the purchase of a former Big Lots distribution facility and adjoining land in Durant, which had been speculated to be a potential detention center site for Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
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Oklahoma Supreme Court justices decided not to strike down Attorney General Gentner Drummond’s opinion, which upheld the Five Tribes’ sovereign rights to oversee wildlife management on their reservation lands.
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An Oklahoma federal judge decided the state cannot intervene in a jurisdictional settlement between the City of Tulsa and the Muscogee Nation in an opinion filed Monday.
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The U.S. Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals rejected an argument last week that challenged whether the Citizen Potawatomi Nation's reservation is still intact. While the main argument is about the CPN reservation, the tribal nation had no involvement in the case.
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An Oklahoma federal judge ruled he can't rule the Osage Nation's reservation is still intact, denying a legal maneuver to resurrect an old lawsuit. However, Principal Chief Geofrey Standing Bear said this decision does not diminish hope; rather, it provides Osage leaders with more clarity on how to move forward.
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The Kiowa Legislature unanimously voted to impeach Chairman Lawrence SpottedBird during an impeachment hearing on Monday in Lawton.
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The Department of the Interior, or DOI, is asking a federal judge to dismiss a proposed class action complaint brought forth by the Wichita and Affiliated Tribes and the Washoe Tribe of Nevada and California over federal Indian boarding schools.