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  Throughout high school, Bailey Buck showed her family’s cattle across Oklahoma and the country. But it was the time spent in offices of family friends who were doctors that determined the [...]

  Lauren White looked across the room, holding her snack of seaweed mixed with seal oil, watching the Yup’ik and Inupiaq people eat deer jerky made by her Oklahoma family. The people in [...]

  HEALTH 2019 Nihi Hokchi Edible Schoolyard: Little gardeners at the Choctaw Nation Durant Child Development Center showed off their knowledge during this year’s program. The older ones, who [...]

  Nita (bear), chukfi (rabbit), ossi (eagle)! Stretch, stretch, stretch! Bear crawls, bunny hops, and flapping arms like eagle wings warmed up 78 youth and prepared them for a challenge [...]

  Shane Haddock clicked the link that sent him to a new scholarship on the Chahta Foundation’s website. There was his father’s name, prominently displayed. “Phillip Ray Haddock” stood out [...]

  The Choctaw Nation was coming to an end. A bill passed in 1959 to terminate the tribe would go into effect August 1970.  Not all the Choctaw people even knew it was happening. But word [...]

  “Your life is a living letter.” At the 7th Annual Chahta Foundation Scholarship Banquet Scott Wesley, Chahta Foundation Scholarship Director, closed the program with a charge to the [...]

  At twelve years old, Chloe Moyer began working for her dad at his tractor company, developing the hard work ethic role modeled by her parents. She had a natural gift as an organizer and [...]

  Choctaw-Ireland Scholarship Programme This spring marked the first opportunity students had to apply for the Choctaw-Ireland Scholarship Programme. The scholarship is being instituted in [...]