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Westward expansion

Jeremy Martin

Warhol and the West Jan. 31-May 10 National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum 1700 NE 63rd St. nationalcowboymuseum.org 405-478-2250 Free-$12.50 Featuring Andy Warhol’s prints of John Wayne, Annie Oakley, Geronimo and more as well as artifacts from the artist’s personal collection, Warhol and the West is on display Jan. 31-May 10 at National Cowboy & […]

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Chicken-Fried News: Gambling problem

Gazette staff

Last year, the tribal nations operating Oklahoma’s more than 100 casinos paid $139 million to the state in “exclusivity fees,” according to Associated Press, but Gov. Kevin “Never Count Your Money When You’re Sitting at the Table” Stitt wants to raise the stakes. The fees — currently 4-10 percent of the casinos’ net revenue paid […]

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Standing tall

Charles Martin

Standing Their Ground: Warrior Artists through Oct. 31 Exhibit C 1 E. Sheridan Ave., Suite 100 exhibitcgallery.com 405-767-8900 Free Charles Guerrier took his nephew to a bar in 1962 to show off the freshly minted Marine to the local cadre of combat veterans. Harvey Pratt had always looked up to his war hero uncle, a […]

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Bison rising

Matthew Price

Ancient. Massive. Wild. — The Bison Exhibit through May 12 National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum 1700 NE 63rd St. nationalcowboymuseum.org 405-478-2250 Free-$12.50 National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum’s Ancient. Massive. Wild. — The Bison Exhibit tells the story of the bison in a 7,000 square-foot exhibit that chronicles both the animal’s near-extinction and its […]

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Native victory

Nazarene Harris

Bella Cornell, 17, remembers the day in middle school when her classmates asked her if she was a cannibal. The only Native American student in her Oklahoma City public school, Cornell was in history class when her teacher began describing Native Americans as savage barbarians who ate human flesh. When her peers asked her if […]

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