Cherokee Nation stepped forward again this summer to meet a need too great to ignore: feeding hungry children. During agrarian times, communities faced “hunger season” between planting and the harvest...

With some of the harebrained ideas that get tossed around every year, there’s understandably a joke bandied about in political circles that Oklahomans are safer when their legislators are not in sessi...

Getting home wasn’t as easy as I thought it’d be. Storms were on the horizon and flights were already getting cancelled. My daughter Sydney’s friend, Deidra, and her family left the airport with no is...

The fall hunting season will kick off Sept.1 with the opening day of dove season across “The Sooner State.” The Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation (ODWC) office said that northeastern Oklaho...

Virtual education is a powerful equalizer for students in rural Oklahoma. It’s helping students in small towns gain access to advanced classes, career skills and personalized support that were once ou...

The 2025 High School Football Preview, which will be its usual four sections in total, will publish in our Aug. 29 edition. It’s been a lot of work, including working each of the last two Saturdays as...

Weather patterns have changed dramatically when people start declaring what they need instead of saying all the negative things that plagues all those who hears them. As Charles Capps puts it, “Peopel...

The book of Jude is one of the shortest books in the King James Bible. Although it’s short the book of Jude says volumes. It’s an excellent read. Please study for yourself. Follow Jesus Christ all the...

We had 12 members in attendance Monday. Our Thinner Winner this week was Lynda with a loss of 2.8 pounds. Great job, Lynda! We had a new member join our chapter. Melissa, welcome to our fun-loving gro...

The Fall Preview 2025, which will have the season-preview stories and schedules of the local high school fastpitch softball teams, high school cross country teams and the Carl Albert State College cro...

Across the Cherokee Nation Reservation, students and their families are gearing up for a new school year. This time of the year always ushers in a new promise of possibilities and opportunities for th...

You can’t know what you don’t measure, and you can’t accurately track progress if the tool keeps changing. Yet, Oklahoma leaders at the Education Department want to change testing requirements again a...

Never kick a dog. Two reasons, number one, it might chew your leg off and second, it would be such a demeaning thing to do. Our basic nature is revealed in so many ways and that would be worse than lo...

If you’re righthanded and you've picked up this newspaper, you’re surely wondering what you’ve gotten yourself into. And why. Today (Aug. 13) is International Left-Handers Day, an obscure “holiday” th...

On August 14, 2019, I took an oath to protect and defend the Constitution of the Cherokee Nation. My oath requires me to defend against the United Keetoowah Band of Cherokee Indians’ attacks on our so...

YOU MUST BE WASHED IN THE BLOOD OF JESUS CHRIST! JESUS CHRIST GAVE HIS LIFE, HIS BLOOD, SO THAT WHOSOEVER CAN BE SAVED OR BORN AGAIN! 1 John 1-10 1That which was from the beginning, which we have hear...

Schools start up again this week for hundreds of thousands of Oklahoma students, and our public classrooms are in the throes of a massive teacher shortage. Our children return from summer breaks suffe...

TOPS 0737 Sallisaw has been busy the past two weeks. July 28 was our chapter fun day, so we weighed in and then traveled over to Gore and had an Indian Taco meal and fruit kabobs. We had a chapter net...

A cloudy day can comfort the way cool fingers can soothe a fevered brow. It is the touch that demands nothing and gives everything. Even when the wind is blowing a gale and the brown leaves along the ...

I put the golf cart in high gear and headed for the mountains to inhale some fresh air. It was a good five minute or so drive to the roadway, and I enjoyed looking at the varieties of wildflowers and ...