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As Chickasaw veteran Louis Parker recalls 88 years from his home in Chico, California, what unfolds is an underdog tale full of peaks and valleys, seemingly insurmountable odds, and the will to push forward and do well. He overcame numerous obstacles on a journey from Oklahoma to Kansas, California, then Japan and Korea; ultimately making his home in California. Despite family hardships, school bullies, homelessness, enemy combatants in foreign lands, loss, and the trials and tribulations of...
Award-winning brother and sister entertainers Wiley Winters and Missy Rude will be among the performers Saturday, Sept. 19, during a McSwain Theatre virtual performance featuring Jae L. & Crossover with Special Guests. The public is invited to enjoy the show from the comfort of their home at McSwainTheatre.com or the McSwain Theatre Facebook page at Facebook.com/McSwainTheatre. Rude has earned awards as McSwain Theatre's Female Vocalist of the Year and also at the Pauls Valley Opry. In a recent...
WASHINGTON - Schools operated by the Bureau of Indian Education (BIE) on the Navajo Nation will be opening under a distance-learning plan next week, a surprising reversal of the agency's plans to hold classes in person. The agency apparently changed course after a discussion between Navajo Nation President Jonathan Nez and BIE Director Tony Dearman. Neither the Navajo Nation nor the BIE have issued public statements about the new plan, and officials did not respond to emailed requests for...
COLUMBIA (WBFF) Howard County has joined the growing list of cities and states nationwide replacing Columbus Day with a day that leaders said honor indigenous people instead. Howard County Executive Calvin Ball announced Tuesday the county would replace Columbus Day with Indigenous Peoples' Day. Several other jurisdictions have done the same in recent years, including Alaska, Vermont, Maine and Oregon. Washington, D.C. also replaced the holiday with Indigenous Peoples' Day as did Montgomery and Prince George’s Counties in Maryland. “I want our...
Coronavirus is disproportionately killing minority children in the U.S., especially those with other underlying health conditions, according to a federal report that shows how devastation from Covid-19 among Black and Hispanic adults has carried down to their offspring. Children are much less likely than adults to contract coronavirus or fall seriously ill because of the infection, health records show, though vulnerability varies based on demographics. Of around 190,000 deaths attributed to...
A coalition of First Nations is calling for an order forcing the B.C. Ministry of Health to release data on confirmed and presumptive COVID-19 cases near their communities, saying the province is violating the privacy act and endangering lives by keeping the information private. The Heiltsuk Nation, Nuu-chah-nulth Tribal Council and Tŝilhqot'in National Government have filed a petition on Monday with the province's privacy commissioner, asking for the order against the ministry. The coalition's campaign website said information about cases...
