Columns & Opinions
By Joyce Sequichie Hifler 
May 8, 2025
On early mornings when the sun casts long streaks of color across the land every tree and every bush is covered with vibrant shades of red and gold. Unless we see and absorb it, we cannot reap the ben...
Columns & Opinions, Sports
KILGORE'S CORNER
May 8, 2025
An army is on the move. It’s the turtles migrating from their winter hibernation spots to areas more conducive for breeding and egg-laying. This migration often requires turtles to traverse roadways, ...
Columns & Opinions, Religion
BLACKGUM CHRISTIAN UNION CHURCH
By Pastor Reggie Kelley 
May 6, 2025
GOD IS LOVE! GOD LOVES EVERYONE AND HE WANTS EVERYONE TO COME TO HEAVEN! GOD GAVE MANKIND FREEWILL TO LOVE HIM, TO LOVE ONE ANOTHER, AND TO KNOW HIS SON-JESUS CHRIST-AS THE LORD AND SAVIOR OF ALL! 1 J...
Columns & Opinions, Tribal
CHIEF CHAT
By Chuck Hoskin Jr. Cherokee Nation Principal Chief 
May 6, 2025
Protecting Cherokee Nation’s sovereignty requires constant vigilance, particularly in ensuring the federal government upholds its solemn trust responsibilities to provide for the health and well-being...
Columns & Opinions
By Joyce Sequichie Hifler 
May 1, 2025
Last night fireflies came to twinkle and wink among new green leaves. The wind had changed from warm south gusts to cooler air that had earlier produced hail. Rain ceased and darkness fell until the m...
Columns & Opinions
SALLISAW TOPS
By Billie Anthony 
May 1, 2025
Monday, we had fourteen TOPS and 1 KOPS in attendance. Our visitor came back and joined our jolly chapter. Wanda E will be a pleasant member to have joined our crew. WELCOME to 0737 Sallisaw!!! Our be...
Columns & Opinions
By Lynn Adams Staff Writer 
May 1, 2025
For those who accept the truth that has been proven on countless occasions regarding the legitimacy of the 2020 election, prepare to encounter an illogical resistance to facts and the propagation of l...
Columns & Opinions
CHIEF CHAT
By Chuck Hoskin Jr. Cherokee Nation Principal Chief 
April 29, 2025
Stewardship of the earth is at the center of Cherokee culture. It comes out of the understanding that every decision we make shapes the world our children and grandchildren will inherit. True stewards...
Columns & Opinions, Religion
BLACKGUM CHRISTIAN UNION CHURCH
By Pastor Reggie Kelley 
April 29, 2025
JACOB’S LADDER, WHAT A MESSAGE AND WHAT A VISION! ANGELS ASCENDING AND DESCENDING TO EARTH ON A LADDER! JACOB— ONE OF JESUS CHRIST’S KINSMAN— WAS ALLOWED TO SEE A GLIMPSE OF ANGELS COMING DOWN FROM HE...
Columns & Opinions
COMMENTARY
By JANELLE STECKLEIN OKLAHOMA VOICE 
April 28, 2025
At a time when my classmates were learning the building blocks of reading, my first grade teacher was informing my mother that I’d be illiterate. Let’s just say that learning my teacher had washed her...
Columns & Opinions
SALLISAW TOPS
By Billie Anthony 
April 24, 2025
This past Monday, we had 12 TOPS and one KOPS in attendance. We had a visitor that is planning on joining our chapter next week. We look forward to introducing her to you all. Our best weight loss wen...
Columns & Opinions
By Joyce Sequichie Hifler 
April 24, 2025
Who give us more trouble than anyone else? Sometimes we are the worst. We bully ourselves to do something we know is not right. We refuse to ignore something that is not good for us. In fact, we tend ...
Columns & Opinions
April 24, 2025
Were nearly three-fourths of the way done with this years legislative session, and our work to make improvements in the lives of Oklahomans is ongoing. I’m pleased to report that our decisions and eff...
Columns & Opinions, School News
COMMENTARY
By STEPHANIE PYLE | OKLAHOMA VOICE 
April 22, 2025
Oklahoma’s students are about to be handed a set of deeply politicized social studies standards, and what’s happening here is a warning for the rest of the country. But the real danger isn’t any singl...
Columns & Opinions, Religion
BLACKGUM CHRISTIAN UNION CHURCH
By Pastor Reggie Kelley 
April 22, 2025
THE CHRISTIAN UNION STATION BLACKGUM CHRISTIAN UNION CHURCH PASTOR, REGGIE KELLEY HAVE REVERENTIAL HONOR FOR GOD! RESPECT HIM IN ALL THAT YOU SAY AND DO! TO GOD BE THE GLORY AND PRAISE FOREVER! Isaiah...
Columns & Opinions, Sports
DIAMOND NOTES
By BY DAVID SEELEY SPORTS EDITOR 
April 22, 2025
When Wes Green, who guided the Tigers to the Class 2A State Tournament last May, became the Sallisaw Lady Diamonds softball coach and assistant baseball coach for this school year, a void had to be fi...
Columns & Opinions, Tribal
CHIEF CHAT
By Chuck Hoskin Jr. Cherokee Nation Principal Chief 
April 22, 2025
Water is life. No one understood this better than former Principal Chief Wilma Mankiller and Charlie Soap. Together, they devoted themselves to the most essential work of all: connecting Cherokee fami...
Columns & Opinions
COMMENTARY
By JANELLE STECKLEIN OKLAHOMA VOICE 
April 20, 2025
Oklahoma lawmakers are clearly scared to death of their constituents, and who could blame them? After all, voters in recent years have forced our lawmakers to come face-to-face with the terrifying rea...
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By Lynn Adams Staff Writer 
April 17, 2025
On April 19, 1995, I was working at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center when the five-story building that housed my office shuddered simultaneously with a dull concussion at 9:02 a.m. Th...
Columns & Opinions
By Joyce Sequichie Hifler 
April 17, 2025
You are not a rug, so don’t allow someone to walk on you. Neither are you a meany that tells you to walk on others. You are a human being with rights that says to talk nicely and walk tall. Don’t resp...