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You don't have to look outside of Oklahoma City to learn more about your tribe.
Here are some local resources for you to enjoy.
Are you planning a day trip around Oklahoma?
Experience sacred American Indian traditions and view authentic cultural displays at top Native American museums, cultural centers, and attractions in Oklahoma. Make sure to check out TravelOK.com for a list of the top Native American attractions in Oklahoma.
Interested in viewing/purchasing contemporary Native art or attending a Native American event?
Red Earth, Inc. is a non-profit 501 organization whose mission is to promote the rich traditions of American Indian arts and cultures through education, a premier festival, a museum, and fine art markets.
Red Earth Art Center is located in the south lobby of the BancFirst Tower in downtown Oklahoma City.
There is a park dedicated to Chief Standing Bear?
Located in Ponca City, Standing Bear Park is a 63-acre park that encompasses more than eight fully developed acres that include off-street parking; a one-acre pond with central arrowhead island; a walking trail winding through native grasses and wildflowers to the monument site, and a shaded memorial grove at a peaceful sitting area along the way. Check out the 22-foot bronze statue is of Ponca Chief Standing Bear and the Standing Bear Museum while you are there.
Click below for more information about the park hours and directions.
Tracing your tribal background?
The Oklahoma History Center has an extensive library to trace your Indian ancestry. Since 1934 the Oklahoma Historical Society American Indian Archives have housed records for numerous tribal nations. The archives include federal Indian records placed in the society's custody in 1934 by an act of Congress. Containing more than 3.5 million documents and 6,000 volumes, the collection represents sixty-six tribes. These tribes either were relocated by removal or are native to the area. These records include a variety of official documents and information relating to tribes in Indian and Oklahoma Territory.
Noteworthy Native News
Native TV & Movies
CHEYENNE AND ARAPAHO TELEVISION K35MV-D
Cheyenne and Arapaho Television provides Oklahoma with a rich cultural viewing experience for Native as well as Non-Native audiences. Their hope is to not only present positive and inspiring images of Native Americans but also through cultural exposure and education, they are able to foster a better appreciation and understanding between Oklahoma's Non-Native and Native communities.
For more information click on the link below.
Spirit Rangers
A new animated children's show on Netflix, follows three Indigenous siblings who are tasked with becoming Spirit Rangers and embodying various animals to protect the national park they call home. Karissa Valencia, the show's creator, was inspired by her upbringing and the tribal stories her father would tell her about nature and animals.
Gather
An intimate portrait of a growing movement amongst Indigenous Americans to reclaim their spiritual and cultural identities through obtaining sovereignty over their ancestral food systems, while battling against the historical trauma brought on by centuries of genocide. Showing on Netflix.
Rez Ball
The Chuska Warriors, a Native American high school basketball team from New Mexico, must band together after losing their star player if they want to keep their quest for a state championship alive. Showing on Netflix.
Reservation Dogs
A half-hour comedy that follows the exploits of four Indigenous teenagers in rural Oklahoma. After the death of the fifth member of the Reservation Dogs, the crew took to stealing, scheming and saving in order to vicariously fulfill his dream of reaching the exotic, mysterious and faraway land of California. But after a promising start to their criminal endeavors, including the legendary heist of a Flaming Flamers chips truck, swiping some old lady’s weed edibles and some low-grade grand theft auto, the plan went bust. The gang disbanded, with everyone trying to forge their own paths. Showing on FX.
Frybread Face and Me
Two adolescent Navajo cousins from different worlds bond during a summer herding sheep on their grandmother's ranch in Arizona while learning more about their family's past and themselves. Showing on Netflix.
Dark Winds
A thrilling new Western that follows Joe Leaphorn and his Navajo Tribal Police deputies as they investigate a series of seemingly unrelated crimes. Showing on AMC+
Basketball or Nothing
Sports documentary of the lives of the Chinle High School boys' basketball team based on the Navajo Nation reservation in Arizona. Showing on Netflix.
Want to learn your Native language?
These are tribes of the students that NASS services with our grant. Click on the underlined tribal name that you belong to and learn more about your language.
Absentee Shawnee, Apache, Caddo Nation, Cherokee, Cheyenne/Arapaho, Chickasaw (adults) (kids), Choctaw, Comanche, Delaware, Eastern Shawnee, Fort Sill Apache, Inuqiaq, Iowa, Kaw, Keetoowah, Kickapoo, Kiowa, Lipan Apache, Miami, Muscogee Creek, Navajo, Northern Cherokee, Osage, Otoe-Missouria, Pawnee, Peoria, Ponca, Potawatomi, Sac & Fox, Santo Domingo, Seminole, Shoshone, Siberian Yupik, Sioux, Southern Cherokee, Wichita, and Wyandotte
*Eastern Shawnee, Osage, and Ponca require a password for language classes*
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