Yvonne Chouteau is best remembered as one of the Five Moons, Native American prima ballerinas from Oklahoma.
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Blazing art
Cherokee basket Shan Goshorn is a preservationist, storyteller and human rights activist. In other words, she’s a contemporary Native American artist. Goshorn, a Tulsa resident and Eastern Band Cherokee tribe member, has been supporting herself as an artist for 30 years and exploring various media — including photography, beadwork, painting, glass and metalworking — to […]
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Indian bummer
Credit: Brad Gregg He remarks on it so much, in fact, you might assume he lacks substantive policy positions to discuss. Brown’s fans, including some of his own staffers, have latched on to the “controversy,” chanting “Indian war whoops” and making “tomahawk chop gestures” at more than one campaign rally. Even after Principal Chief of […]
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Tribal tongue
So are dozens of other American Indian languages that were in danger of disappearing, thanks to expanding education programs among some Indian nations and the Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History in Norman. “If we want to continue on with our unique sovereignty, then our language is a part of that,” said Justin Neely, […]
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Returning to history
Debut author Sonia Gensler knew she’d found the setting for her young-adult novel when she visited friends a few years ago in Tahlequah. “It’s a beautiful building,” said Gensler of Seminary Hall on the campus of Northeastern State University. “It’s got turrets and a clock tower, and it kind of looks like a castle.” Gensler […]