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A fireworks show, the Boom in the Valley, scheduled for Thursday has been canceled following an incident Wednesday evening that left at least five people injured.
The City of Tulsa has agreed to defer criminal jurisdiction to the Muscogee Nation. It also agrees not to prosecute Native ...
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Officials with the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation are looking into a deadly shooting out of eastern Oklahoma.
Several tribes practiced slavery, and five in Oklahoma — The Cherokee, Seminole, Choctaw, Chickasaw, and Muscogee nations — signed reconstruction treaties with the U.S. in 1866 abolishing it ...
Juneteenth may mark the day in 1865 when enslaved people in Galveston, Texas found out they had been freed, but thousands of people in Oklahoma are still fighting for full citizenship in the ...
However, unlike the Choctaw, the Chickasaw Nation never recognized the people it held in slavery as citizens of the tribe. “They broke the treaty, they never gave citizenship to their Freedmen.