Family, Great Depression, World War II Shaped Chickasaw Elder’s Legacy

Dana Lance, Chickasaw Nation
3/9/14
Visitors to the bustling University of Oklahoma Medical Center emergency room are frequently assisted by Chickasaw elder Jeraldine “Jerry” Brown.
The petite, effervescent 92-year-o...

Candessa Tehee Embraces Role as Leader of Cherokee Heritage Center

Cherokee Nation
1/25/14
Twenty years ago when Candessa Tehee worked as a teenage tour guide at the Cherokee Heritage Center in Tahlequah, Oklahoma, she had no idea she would someday be in charge of the op...

University Offers Free Native Peoples of Oklahoma Online Course

ICTMN Staff
1/7/14
During this spring semester the University of Oklahoma will offer Native Peoples of Oklahoma, a free online course on the cultural traditions and current conditions of the Native A...

Lace From Spiro Mounds Classified as Endangered Artifact

ICTMN Staff
9/6/13
Lace found at the Spiro Mounds in eastern Oklahoma by a University of Oklahoma excavation team in the 1930s has been classified as one of the state’s top 10 most endangered artifac...

OU Transfers Ownership of Health Facility to Muscogee

ICTMN Staff
8/11/13
The University of Oklahoma will formally transfer the ownership of the George Nigh Rehabilitation Center to the Muscogee (Creek) Nation at a Monday, August 12 ceremony...

Cherokee Nation's Day of Champions Sports Camp Features OU's Josh Huepel

ICTMN Staff
6/29/13
Nearly 120 students braved the heat recently to learn athletic skills and character building from University of Oklahoma’s offensive coordinator Josh Heupel and other notable forme...

University of Oklahoma Offers Online Indigenous Peoples Law Program

ICTMN Staff
6/17/13
A new online Master of Legal Studies program in Indigenous Peoples Law at the University of Oklahoma School of Law in Norman, Oklahoma is designed to help navigate the often compli...

Like Fathers, Like Sons

Cedric Sunray
6/16/13

Lindy Waters (Kiowa/Cherokee) was a former stand out collegiate basketball player, but you won’t hear him talk too much about that. Today his life is consumed as a father of four, administrator at the University of Oklahoma, and Indian community advocate....

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Northern Arapaho Law Student Named Association Vice President

ICTMN Staff
5/27/13
University of Oklahoma College of Law student Roy Brown was elected as vice president for the National Native American Law Student Association during the Federal Bar Association’s ...

Natives Have an Ally in Japan

ICTMN Staff
1/24/13
He’s been fascinated with Native American culture since he was young and that love has grown into a lifelong education for Yoshitaka “Yoshi” Iwasaki, a doctoral student at Osaka Un...

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