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Choctaw woman makes history with new documentary

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FBI sending extra agents to 10 states including Colorado to work unsolved violent crimes in Native American communities

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Documentary about Indigenous activist Leonard Peltier opens Twin Cities film festival

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Southern Oregon University’s Native American Student Union gears up for its 32nd annual powwow - Ashland, OR

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Ramos Bill to Make California Native American Day a Paid Holiday Advances in Assembly

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‘1923’ Stars Speak Out: What Their Fates Mean for Teonna’s Future

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Native Hawaiians among list of nationally recognized Indigenous women

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Machine learning models predict dementia risk among American Indian/Alaska Native adults

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“Raven and the Box of Daylight” Exhibit Coming to Áak’w Landing

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UAA students express concern over ‘reorganization’ of Native Student Services program

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Top role in Missing Indigenous Person Task Force vacant as lawmakers consider bills combating crisis

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Alaska Native advocates say new Trump election order would further disenfranchise rural voters

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Syphilis is rising across the U.S. Here's how one Indigenous community is leading the fight against infections.

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NC bill would order end of ‘offensive American Indian mascots’ in public schools

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How Alaska Native youth are protecting the land for their future ancestors

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Trump grants clemency to 2 of Hunter Biden's ex-associates who defrauded a Native American tribal entity

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Liberal Leader Mark Carney makes no Indigenous announcement in Winnipeg

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Anishinaabe hand drum, shakers and music-making class strengthens Indigenous knowledge in early education

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Reclaiming Our Stories: The Rise Of Native American Representation In Hollywood Cinema

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The Newfound Fervor for Indigenous Art Masks Thorny Questions

  • Absolutely. OKC IHS does tons of good for the Native community and is the only one in the area. The next closest from the OKC area would be El Reno (~45 min away), but it's small. Anadarko or Watonga would be next and they're about an hour away and they're small, too. Hearing that it was being shuttered to recoup $120K was infuriating, but I shouldn't have been surprised they were willing to sacrifice lives for what is less than the average cost of a single home in the metro.

  • Those were both pretty cool reads. We have something similar to La Lechuza called a hatakchaya, which is a kind of witch. The Nahua associating owls with death is interesting, especially since they sound to be more positive than the stories I hear. For Choctaw, the owl is also closely associated with death in the sense they are considered to be harbingers. As you mentioned in a comment, there is actual differentiation. For us, the difference in what owl you see indicates things like the age of the person who will die. The one exception IIRC is the screech owl, which is seen as a sign of a murder has or will happen.

    Edit: Also, thanks for pointing out that they're climate change deniers. I definitely won't be posting any more articles from them.

  • I'm Choctaw and we're from the Southeast United States (Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana), so owls are bad news. If you've ever watched the show "Reservation Dogs", there's a scene where the kids (I think they're Mvskoke/Creek) catch a glimpse of an owl and react in a typical way for kids raised traditionally: This scene (Youtube)