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The state’s largest wildfire on record tore across the heart of Texas cattle country, and more days of strong winds were forecast. A rangeland ecologist explains why the flames spread so fast.
Despite the perpetrators being tried and convicted, anti-Indigenous sentiment roiled the area for decades.
The Osage murders of the 1920s are just one episode in nearly two centuries of stealing land and resources from Native Americans. Much of this theft was guided and sanctioned by federal law.
The school’s approval may be the strongest challenge yet to limits on public money in religious schools.
Despite support for clemency from Oklahoma’s top prosecutor, a death row inmate appears set to die on May 18.
Rather than protecting some of the world’s most vulnerable children, many of Africa’s orphanages are exploiting them.
In 1972, justices handed down a decision that attacked discriminatory and capricious death sentences. But it left the door ajar for states to continue the practice.
For the past 50 years, the Supreme Court has issued rulings that narrow tribal rights while Congress has worked to expand them. A recent ruling struck yet another blow against Native sovereignty.
Local governments in Oklahoma are adapting to a 2020 Supreme Court ruling, but state officials have chosen a different path.
Studies show tornadoes are getting more common and more intense, and they’re shifting eastward to a new tornado hot spot.
The discovery of oil and gas made members of the Osage Nation among the richest people in the world. But it also made them targets for exploitation.
Some downplay seemingly ridiculous white nationalist groups like the Boogaloo Boys at our peril. Looking back at a successful coup engineered by the Ku Klux Klan in Oklahoma shows us why.
Republicans claim that Biden’s clean-energy program would mean massive job losses in the oil-and-gas sector. The figures cited are not supported by the facts.
The Supreme Court’s July 9 ruling that half of Oklahoma belongs to the Muscogee Nation confirms what Indigenous people already knew: North America is ‘Indian Country.’
Land in what is now eastern Oklahoma, which was granted to the Creek Nation by Congress in 1833, is still under tribal sovereignty, the Supreme Court ruled.
Oklahoma is a place of trauma that cuts much deeper than anything on ‘Tiger King,’ which is essentially poverty porn for people who like to see people make hot messes of themselves.
Woody Guthrie’s anthem has become a rallying cry for immigrants. But did he really have a ‘blind spot’ for Native Americans, as some have claimed?
The $270 million settlement may not mean a whole lot if Purdue files for bankruptcy as it’s reportedly considering.
There are some good explanations for the mismatch between regional support for climate action and the areas where renewable energy is making the biggest inroads.
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