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Two Choctaw Students Earn 2026 Choctaw-Ireland Scholarships DURANT, Okla. – Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma tribal members Molly Cornett and Kirstyn Smith have been named the 2026 Choctaw-Ireland [...]

Dr. Ryan Lee Taylor‘s story is one of quiet devotion, steady excellence, and a lifelong commitment to helping others. Today, that story continues, carried forward through generous gifts [...]

The Bond – Blackley – Smeltzer Endowed Scholarship was established in 2025 and is the result of donations given to the Chahta Foundation by Dave Smeltzer and the Smeltzer Family to [...]

The Chahta Foundation started with an idea from Joy Culbreath, an early driving force of the nonprofit, in 2011. The Chahta Foundation is dedicated to advancing Choctaw life through education, [...]

  Raised by a single mom who is a teacher, Ciara knows formal education will help her achieve her dreams of becoming a director. While earning her bachelor’s degree at California State [...]

  In the 1880s, two Choctaw sisters packed their bags and moved from Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory. They headed for Daughters College in Kentucky on a scholarship from the tribe. “There [...]

  Gerry and Allison Mulvey sit together, carefully reading through applications for the St. Patrick of Ireland scholarship that they established through the Chahta Foundation. As they read, [...]

  Climbing out of the family’s station wagon partway through a long road trip from Texas to California in the 1960s, young Robyn Killingsworth knew they had arrived to visit her maternal [...]

  For her high school graduation, Janie Dillard’s English teacher gifted her a bull to start a herd of cattle. Janie had little idea what her future held then, but Ms. Greenwood at the [...]