News
Nathan Wilson
In the heart of Indian Country, Oklahoma universities lead the nation in the number of American Indian students obtaining undergraduate degrees, according to a recent report published by Diverse Issues in Higher Education.
Friday 24 May
OKG Newsletter
Topic: american indian
Indian nation
Oklahoma dominates the nation in awarding bachelor’s degrees to American Indians
News
Nathan Wilson
In the heart of Indian Country, Oklahoma universities lead the nation in the number of American Indian students obtaining undergraduate degrees, according to a recent report published by Diverse Issues in Higher Education.
Tribal tongue
Oklahoma tribes are preserving Native American languages through technology.
Deep water
Regional disputes over water rights lead to state and federal lawsuits.
News
Clifton Adcock
The battle pitting the state and Oklahoma City against two American Indian tribes and a number of southeastern Oklahoma residents might soon take an unprecedented turn in state legal history.
Camel Spiders
Welcome to the arac war.
Sci-Fi
Rod Lott
Camel Spiders is no Arachnophobia, but it does try to be anything but the cheap creature feature that it is. Like the recent Sharktopus and Dinoshark, it’s another science-gone-wrong pic from producer Roger Corman, and even my 6-year-old son was able to recognize one of the man’s filmmaking tenets from scene one: "Already action already!"
Why so serious?
American Indian artists poke fun at issues and themselves in the annual 'Humor Without Reservations' exhibition.
Visual Arts
Rod Lott
Humor Without Reservations
through May 1
Tribes 131
131 24th Ave. N.W., Norman
tribes131.com
329-4442
free
Water war
Stakes are big in the battle over water rights.
News
Clifton Adcock
The rain came down so hard, it resembled waves crashing outside the floor-to-ceiling windows on the third floor of the Oklahoma City University Meinders School of Business building.
Tribe Jibe
CFN
Gazette staff
Racial stereotypes muck things up when we least expect it, like in the recent kerfuffle about whether blondhaired, blue-eyed Elizabeth Warren, the Democratic U.S. Senate candidate in Massachusetts, is Native American.
Fallin appoints Native liaison
DOD agent Jacque Secondine Hensley named to position in governor’s office.
News
Clifton Adcock
Almost two years after the elimination of the Oklahoma Indian Affairs Commission, Gov. Mary Fallin announced July 10 that she was appointing a Native American liaison to her office.
