This week on Indian Times: the 5th annual Indian Country Business Summit will be held in Norman, Oklahoma Aug 29-31.  We’ll hear from Paul Bickford, a state member of the American Indian Chamber of Commerce, one of the sponsors of the business summit. For more info go to www.indiancountrybusinesssummit.com . We’ll hear the latest on the Cherokee Nation elections and another one of Oklahoma’s tribes rescues a state park from closure.
Upcoming native events:
Saturday (8/20) the Eastern Shawnee Children’s Powwow, will go on in Wyandotte, OK. Free and open to the public. There will be Gourd dancing and Native dance competitions for tiny tots and junior divisions. For more information: 918-666-7710.

September 1-5 is the Choctaw Nation’s Labor Day Festival & Powwow in Tuskahoma, OK. For more information: 580-924-8280.

 

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