Choctaw News

Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt asked the state Supreme Court on Friday to decide the rights of two Oklahoma-based American Indian tribes to water in major streams in their historic territories in southeastern Oklahoma.

Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt has asked the state Supreme Court to decide the rights of two Oklahoma-based American Indian tribes to water in two major streams in their historic territories in southeastern Oklahoma.

Leaders of the Chickasaw and Choctaw nations will not drop a water rights lawsuit they filed against the state of Oklahoma last year until a "reasonable resolution" has been reached.

A miscommunication about a bomb threat to a Choctaw school caused rumors to spread about lockdowns in Harrah, McLoud and Little Axe schools.

Gov. Mary Fallin says an ongoing mediation process is the best way to resolve disputes between Oklahoma and the tribes.

The Chickasaw and Choctaw Nations on Friday announced a seven-point plan intended to clarify the Nations' water resource management priorities in light of recent litigation over water rights in their southeastern Oklahoma homelands, the tribes announced, in a news release.

In the latest search warrant filed in the Jaymie Adams murder investigation, police revealed they have located a man who called and texted the pregnant Blanchard mother on the day she went missing.

Oklahoma City answered a tribal lawsuit Wednesday by denying most of the claims made by the Choctaw and Chickasaw nations to water rights in southeast Oklahoma.

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A Choctaw woman was indicted this week on charges she and an accomplice robbed a bank and spent the money on drugs and gambling.

Simmering conflicts between the state and leaders of the Choctaw and Chickasaw nations over water rights in Oklahoma's fertile southeastern corner will begin a new chapter when the state goes to court to determine the extent of the tribes' water rights - a legal battle that has taken years to resolve in other states with similar tribal disputes.