A total of 135 scholarships valued at more than $350,000 were awarded at the 2022 Chahta Foundation Scholarship Banquet. This year’s event, the first since 2019 because of COVID, was held at the Choctaw Cultural Center with 100 people in attendance.

Is the Constitution a religous document? Did it have a Biblical foundation? The fundamental act of our Founding, (the Declaration of Independence), recognizes the Creator God as the Source of Rights. It acknowledges that the purpose of civil government is simply to “secure” the Rights God gave us.

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Funeral services for Edna Alyne (Hill) Curtis, of Mesquite, Texas, were held at 2 p.m. Wednesday, Nov.

Laverne Marie Daniel, of Hugo, Okla., passed away Oct. 30, 2022, at the age of 74. Laverne Marie Daniel was born on Nov. 22, 1947, in Redding, Calif., the daughter of U.V. Daniel and Beulah Jean Daniel. She was preceded in death by her parents; brother, Alan Daniel and a beloved grandson.

Funeral services for Linda Sue (Hampton) Bradshaw, of Talihina, Okla., were held at 10 a.m. Wednesday, Nov. 9, 2022 at Miller & Miller Funeral Home. Linda Sue (Hampton) Bradshaw was born on March 29, 1949 in Talihina, Okla., the daughter of Mary Francis (Hampton) Hoyl.

John William Jenkins, of Sawyer, Okla., passed away Nov. 3, 2022, at the age of 59.

Several Choctaw Nation Health departments have a new home in Stigler, Okla. On Oct. 27 the Choctaw Nation Health Clinic held a ribboncutting ceremony to celebrate the new extension location in the Stigler Office Building.

The solution to a rare but debilitating and often fatal blood disease may be as close as your medicine cabinet, Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation scientists have discovered.

WASHINGTON – The Justice Department has announced that Kendall Morgan, 44, the former undersheriff of the Le Flore County Sheriff’s Department (LCSO) in Le Flore County, Okla., pleaded guilty to a criminal civil rights violation for using unlawful force on an arrestee.