Sarah Liese
Liese is Diné and an enrolled member of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians. She is passionate about heart-centered storytelling and works as an Indigenous Affairs reporter at KOSU. She joined the station in April 2024.
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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. -
An executive order from President Donald Trump has led to a signage change at a wildlife refuge in Southwest Oklahoma. -
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. -
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. -
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. -
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. -
The Kiowa Legislature unanimously voted to impeach Chairman Lawrence SpottedBird during an impeachment hearing on Monday in Lawton. -
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. -
A federal agency is suspending government contracts awarded to more than 1,000 small businesses facing systemic barriers. Amid misinformation about tribal participation in the program, Cherokee Nation leadership is emphasizing the importance of the tribe's dedicated contracting arm, Cherokee Federal. -
A handful of newly introduced bills bring Indigenous communities in Oklahoma to the forefront, specifically in the areas of law enforcement, compacts and education.
