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  Helping colleagues and friends reach for their dreams. That is at the heart of the Ittvnaha (Gather Together) Scholarship, funded by Choctaw Nation employees and awarded to fellow [...]

  Donor scholarships come from the hearts of people who desire to give back, honor the legacy of someone they love, or to invest in the future of the Choctaw people. This year, we witnessed [...]

  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 [...]