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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
