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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 [...]

Working for a counterparty of Choctaw Global, Jay Davies was introduced to the “heart and grit” of the Choctaw people when he met Justin Wilson of Wright City, Oklahoma. Their business [...]

  “I want to be one of them.” In his formative years, Marcos Terrazas visited with Dr. William Hayes and other health professionals at the Choctaw Nation Rubin White Health Clinic in Poteau, [...]