Beginning on Oct. 1, the applications for the Thanksgiving and Christmas food vouchers will be available for Choctaw Tribal families. The applications are made available online through the Chahta Achvffa online member portal.

OKLAHOMA CITY –– A new finding from the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation shows that a heart dysfunction associated with cardiovascular failure in aging adults may be reversible. According to the American Heart Association, more than 6 million people in the U.S.

DURANT –– The Choctaw Nation Health and Wellness Center in Stigler, Oklahoma, in collaboration with several community partners, will be hosting a free event on Monday, Aug. 31 from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. to provide essential prescription drug safety training and resources in a drivethrough fashion.

Quanah Parker’s “Hereford Bull” is a work of fiction in the western, alternative-history and action sub-genres, and was penned by professor and film and television author Alan Nafzger. Written as his first western novel, this adventure sees our titular Hereford bull being stolen from the Comanche Indian Reservation and lead across the border into Texas by corrupt Texas Rangers. In real life history, Quanah Parker had to just lump it as he couldn’t by law enter Texas. However, the novel takes an unusual premise for a western as friends Charles Goodnight and Randell Mackenzie accompany the chief in an adventure to retrieve the bull. With the two western legends along for the ride and as security, conflicts soon arise in Texas, and that’s before they discover they’ve been followed off the reservation by a group of Comanche boys looking for one last buffalo hunt. Given the animosity Texans had for Comanches and especially natives off the reservation, the entire adventure puts them all in deep danger.