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Nineteen Oklahoma tribes generated more than $23.4 billion in economic impact for the state while employing nearly 140,000 people, according to a new report released in early June.
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Guest Opinion. Homeownership is a cornerstone of the American Dream. For many communities, including tribal communities, the path to homeownership has been filled with challenges.
June 22
Swiss engineers will soon test drones in simulated storms inside a converted Tulsa airplane hangar, as an Oklahoma tribe makes a $500 million push into the booming aerospace market.
June 22
Dr. Megan Bang, an Ojibwe scholar at Northwestern University, will become the first person to self-identify as Native American to serve on the MacArthur Foundation's Board of Directors when she...
June 22
For months, investors have been scrambling to recover millions spent on so-called “tribal tax credits” — financial instruments that federal authorities say did not actually exist.
The Mvskoke Fund CDFI recently finalized the largest loan in its history, using federal grant funding to help finance a Muscogee citizen-owned mechanic shop that’s expected to support 10 full-time...
 
Native professionals continue advancing into leadership roles across industries, from financial technology and legal services to housing development and clean energy. This month's People on the Move highlights experienced leaders bringing both cultural grounding and professional expertise to organizations serving Indigenous communities and beyond.
Damond Crump loves designing games, but hates marketing them. After creating tabletop war games like Patrol: WW2 , Crump’s usual procedure was to design, write and format a set of rules, then post them on an online marketplace.
The U.S. Department of the Treasury is requesting public comments by June 30 on a federal transition to electronic-only payments that will eliminate all government paper checks by September 30, 2025.
New legal filings brought by local government officials have deepened the dispute over the proposed Koi Nation Shiloh Resort & Casino, a project that would transform a 68-acre site near Windsor in Sonoma County into a resort and Class III gaming facility.
U.S. Reps. Sharice Davids (D-Kan.) and Frank Lucas (R-Okla.) plan to introduce bipartisan legislation today to permanently expand tribal control over a program that provides food assistance to nearly 650,000 tribal members, Tribal Business News has learned.
The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, one of the largest philanthropic organizations in the United States with an endowment of more than $8 billion, said today that it launched a Native self-determination program, committing to increase funding and deepen partnerships with Indigenous communities.
The Yurok Tribe has gained control and stewardship of 73 square miles of land along the Klamath River in a $56 million transfer — the largest land-back deal in California’s history.
Poarch Creek Indians Federal announced it acquired federal infrastructure services provider Street Legal Industries Inc., marking the tribe's second federal contracting acquisition in recent months. Terms were not disclosed.
When a talented young Navajo writer in Kansas and a celebrated Dakota author teaching virtual writing workshops 1,500 miles away remained strangers, Valerie Vande Panne spotted what amounted to the ultimate creative missed connection.
Nearly 5,800 government employees of the Cherokee Nation could either be headed back to school or receiving compensation for recently completing a degree under a new tribal workforce development program.
Huna Totem Corporation expects to eliminate 15,000 pounds of plastic waste this year through a partnership with an Alaska Native-owned water company that packages glacial water in reusable aluminum bottles.
President Donald Trump has withdrawn the U.S. government from an agreement between two states and multiple tribal communities to protect salmon and support alternative energy resources in the Pacific Northwest’s Columbia River Basin.