Muscogee Nation

The Muscogee National Council approved a minimum wage increase for tribal employees on Saturday, which will grow to $20 per hour over the next two years.

Oklahoma Attorney General Gentner Drummond has filed a motion to pause development on an aluminum smelter proposed for the northeast Oklahoma town of Inola.

Muscogee Freedmen descendants filed a lawsuit in federal court on Thursday aiming to force the Muscogee Nation to acknowledge their tribal citizenship.

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.

Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation shared a press release on Wednesday, drawing disapproval from several tribal leaders of the five largest tribes in Oklahoma and tribal lawyers. It highlighted a gray area of where tribal citizens can hunt and fish with tribally issued licenses.

The Muscogee Nation Supreme Court affirmed that individuals who are descendants of formerly enslaved people under the tribe are legal citizens.

The Muscogee Nation will develop a “produce prescription” program with federal funding.

The Sundance Film Festival has been a hub for Native filmmakers to screen work, get funding and network. This year, a number of Indigenous films by Indigenous filmmakers are getting a spotlight and some of them were made in Oklahoma.

President Joe Biden has approved a disaster declaration for Muscogee Nation due to severe storms that occurred earlier this year.

Tribal leaders across Oklahoma and beyond are reacting to last week's U.S. Supreme Court decision in the Oklahoma v. Castro-Huerta case, saying the ruling upends more than 100 years of federal Indian law