COMANCHE COMPLEX WILL NOT OBSERVE COLUMBUS DAY

Court Rules In Favor of the Comanche Nation

Ft. Sill Halts Construction of Warehouse South of Medicine Bluffs

By: Jolene Schonchin of the Comanche Nation News

“It is just like putting a warehouse in front of the Vatican or in the parking lot of a church. I'm sure the members of that church would not appreciate it.”

-Rita Coosewooon, Comanche Tribal Elder

It was ordered Sept. 23 by the United States District Judge Timothy DeGiusti to grant the Comanche Nation with a Preliminary Injunction against Ft. Sill's construction at the southern part of Medicine Bluffs.

U.S.  Senate Agrees to Let Courts Decide Freedmen Issue

Washington, D.C.— The United States Senate passed a measure today preserving Cherokee Nation’s federal funding for housing services as long as a tribal court order allowing citizenship for non-Indian Freedmen descendants remains in place throughout the tribal court case that will determine their eligibility for citizenship in the Cherokee Nation.

By: Ramona Almanza 

Always a mainstay in the local pow-wow community, the Oklahoma Gourd Dance Club can always be counted on to be of assistance to the Comanche Nation. Whether it is putting on a benefit pow-wow for those in emergency need or to help co-host a pow-wow, the Oklahoma Gourd Club can be counted on to assist in anyway that they can.

At the foot of Pocahontas Mountain a few miles northeast of Hartshorne, tucked into a peaceful country backdrop of mountain and forest in southeast Oklahoma’s Ouachita range, a special event occurred for the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma that also benefits all Native Americans.