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Cherokee Nation Lessons for All

By David Arnett

Tahlequah, OK: Former Cherokee Nation Chief Chadwick Corntassel Smith has released a new book on the Cherokee Nation. Proceed Undaunted is a legal commentary on Cherokee Nation’s constitutional history, violations, corruption, and moments of hope for the Cherokee people. It tells the story of the development of the Cherokee Nation Constitution, how it guided the survival of the Cherokee Nation during horrific circumstances, and how its violation jeopardizes its legal existence. However, the lessons shared in Proceed Undaunted apply to everyone and to all governments.

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Flooding Neighbor Property in Catoosa

By David Arnett

It is a simple story; a big landowner wants 10 acres adjacent. Some ten years ago, Mike Fine and his wife Sherry visited the Davis family to pitch the sale. They own eighty acres.

Gary Davis was with his 90-year-old mother as the couple pressured Mrs. Davis to sell her beloved homestead. The land in question is north of I-44, west of Lynn Lane, with a residential area and the Cherokee Hard Rock Casino directly east of the property across Lynn Lane.

“We weren’t interested in selling,” Davis said. “The Fines, soon after, started construction of two ponds along the shared edge of their land that deliberately and continuously flooded my family’s property to the point of washing out the only historic bridge allowing access. Now, their entire eighty acres drains downhill on us.”

Gary Davis showing problem pond and I-44 (Photo: Arnett)
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Senate Approves Lankford Bill Lie

By David Arnett

Thursday, the United States Senate approved the Historic Greenwood District—Black Wall Street National Monument Establishment Act by unanimous consent. The legislation will designate a huge national monument area around the Historic Greenwood District of North Tulsa.

Sen. Lankford claims this is were a “Massacre took place” but apparently he has been so busy pandering for votes after being repeatedly censored and rejected by Republicans in Oklahoma over his misguided open borders policies that he has failed to find the truth.

There was an “armed civil insurrection” or “civil war” in 1921 here but there was never a massacre or even a lynching in Tulsa.

This sign on Tulsa’s Greenwood Avenue is a lie: not how the conflict started nor proceeded. Truth should matter.
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Child Abuse Sweep: Two in Oklahoma

By Staff Report

TULSA, Okla. – The Department of Justice today announced the results of Operation Restore Justice, a coordinated national enforcement effort to identify, track and arrest child sex predators.  The operation resulted in the rescue of 115 children and the arrests of 205 child sexual abuse offenders in the nationwide crackdown including Two in the Northern District of Oklahoma.  The coordinated effort was executed over the course of five days by all 55 FBI field offices, the Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section in the Department’s Criminal Division, and United States Attorney’s Offices around the country. 

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