CHOCTAW, Miss. (WJTV) – During the opening night of the 74th Choctaw Indian Fair, Leilani Elyse Allen, 21, was crowned the 2024-2025 Choctaw Indian Princess. Allen is the 69th young Choctaw ...

The World Series of Stickball takes place at the annual Choctaw Indian Fair in Choctaw, Mississippi, where multiple divisions of men, women, and youths compete using traditional equipment. In recent ...

This week in Indian Country, there are plenty of events for everyone to enjoy. From powwows to Indigenous comedy shows, here ...

The Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma will celebrate Native American Heritage Month with a month-long series of cultural, ...

The Alabama Choctaw lived in poverty and isolation until the 1940s, when they began sending some of their children to Indian schools in other states because their own were not accredited. When those ...

Members of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians were looking forward to their annual Cherokee Indian Fair this year — 2024’s ...

This area was home to the Cherokee, Creek, Choctaw, Chicasaw and Seminole nations. These Indian nations, in the view of the settlers and many other white Americans, were standing in the way of ...

The Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma was selected as a Purple Heart Tribe and will be presented with the honor on Veterans Day.

As November marks Native American Heritage Month, Indigenous People’s impact is as big as the state’s name. Mississippi comes ...

BECOME MORE FREQUENT. ALEX PRESHA, ABC NEWS, THE WHITE HOUSE. A NEW FILM IS HIGHLIGHTING WHERE THE NATIVE AMERICAN GAME OF STICKBALL AND THE MISSISSIPPI BAND OF CHOCTAW INDIANS ORIGINATED FROM. SUNDAY ...

JACKSON, Miss. (WJTV) – As November marks Native American Heritage Month, Indigenous People’s impact is as big as the state’s name. Mississippi comes from the Anishinaabe name for “Great ...