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Jan 7, 2025 | 
mvskokemedia.com | Thomas Jackson
OKMULGEE, Okla. – A citizen of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation, William D. Lowe, has been elected President of the American Indian Chamber of Commerce of Oklahoma, the AICCO announced on Dec. 17.
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Jan 6, 2025 | 
mvskokemedia.com | Thomas Jackson
OKMULGEE, Okla. – The Muscogee (Creek) National Council held an emergency session at the Mound Building on Dec. 30.
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Dec 20, 2024 | 
mvskokemedia.com | Thomas Jackson
OKMULGEE, Okla. – The director of the Muscogee Nation’s Vocational Rehabilitation department, Emma De La Cruz, has been elected as the President of the Consortia of Administrators for Native American Rehabilitation, Inc., also known as CANAR. The selection was announced in a statement on Dec. 11.
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Dec 17, 2024 | 
mvskokemedia.com | Thomas Jackson
OKMULGEE, Okla. – The Muscogee (Creek) National Council held the Business, Finance and Justice Committee session at the Mound Building on Dec. 10. Passed legislation is subject to full council approval during the regular session.
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Dec 17, 2024 | 
mvskokemedia.com | Thomas Jackson
WASHINGTON, D.C. – For Indigenous people, few places evoke as much horror and anger as the Federal Indian Boarding Schools. For more than a century, hundreds of thousands of Indigenous children were forcibly removed from their families and placed into these boarding schools in an attempt to ‘assimilate’ the Indigenous people.
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Dec 10, 2024 | 
mvskokemedia.com | Thomas Jackson
TULSA, Okla. – “Talent is one thing but perseverance is something else and Sterlin can speak to both.” That was only part of what Dr. Jeff Van Hanken, the head of the Film Studies department at the University of Tulsa, had to say about Sterlin Harjo, the acclaimed director of the series Reservation Dogs and the film Rez Ball. Harjo, who is a citizen of the Seminole Nation and has Muscogee heritage, has been announced as an upcoming professor and visiting artist.
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Dec 10, 2024 | 
mvskokemedia.com | Thomas Jackson
OKMULGEE, Okla. – The Muscogee (Creek) National Council held the monthly Business, Finance and Justice Committee session at the Mound Building on Dec. 5. Passed legislation is subject to full council approval during the regular session.
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Dec 9, 2024 | 
jdsupra.com | W. Eric Baisden |Thomas Jackson |Adam Primm
As we anticipated in the wake of last year’s U.S. Supreme Court decision in Students for Fair Admissions, Inc. v. President and Fellows of Harvard College, which held that race may not be used as a factor in college admissions decisions, that ruling has emboldened challenges to DEI initiatives among private employers.
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Dec 6, 2024 | 
beneschlaw.com | Adam Primm |Thomas Jackson
As we anticipated in the wake of last year’s U.S. Supreme Court decision in Students for Fair Admissions, Inc. v. President and Fellows of Harvard College, which held that race may not be used as a factor in college admissions decisions, that ruling has emboldened challenges to DEI initiatives among private employers.
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Dec 4, 2024 | 
mvskokemedia.com | Thomas Jackson
TULSA, Okla. – Dec. 7 will be a night of celebration and fun for Indigenous people as the Tulsa Oilers, a ECHL hockey team based in Tulsa, will be holding a Native American Heritage Night. The Oilers will be facing the Tahoe Knight Monsters, a team from the Lake Tahoe area. The fun and festivities will begin at 5:30 p.m. with a pre-game party in the Grand Lobby featuring a live DJ. There will also be giveaways, including a thousand free t-shirts to be given to the first 1,000 people to arrive.
