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The Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma (Choctaw: Chahta Okla) is a Native American reservation [5] occupying portions of southeastern Oklahoma in the United States. [6] At roughly 6,952,960 acres (28,138 km 2; 10,864 sq mi), it is the second-largest reservation in area after the Navajo, exceeding that of the seven smallest U.S. states.
This is a list of federally recognized Native American Tribes in the U.S. state of Oklahoma. With its 38 federally recognized tribes, [ 1 ] Oklahoma has the third largest numbers of tribes of any state, behind Alaska and California .
The Choctaw culture is an ancient culture that continues to thrive within the nations and communities of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma in Oklahoma, the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians in Mississippi, the Jena Band of Choctaw Indians in Louisiana, and the Yowani Choctaws in Mississippi, Texas, Louisiana, and in Oklahoma as part of the Caddo ...
Designed and outfitted with input from all 39 tribes headquartered in Oklahoma, the $175 million, 175,000-square-foot museum opened in 2021, almost 40 years after it was initially envisioned ...
The entrance of the Choctaw Cultural Center simulates a traditional Choctaw home, or "Chukka," with a central fireplace opening to the heavens on Nov. 3, 2023, in Calera, near Durant.
The car tag agreement between the state of Oklahoma and the Choctaw Nation will last at least 10 more years. Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt and Choctaw Chief Gary Batton agreed to renew the compact ...
Norma Howard (Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma), award-winning watercolor painter, with Choctaw stickball sticks made by her son. Beginning in 1979 the Mississippi Choctaw tribal council worked on a variety of economic development initiatives, first geared toward attracting industry to the reservation.
Aug. 25—Choctaw Nation Prosecutor Kara Bacon said an advocacy center operated by the southeast Oklahoma tribal nation is an answer to a challenge given by a Lakota Chief more than a hundred ...