(KTEN) — The number of fluent Native American language speakers is declining. The Bureau of Indian Affairs says approximately ...

The Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma is the third largest federally ... have been documented as being the first to use their native language as a “code” to transmit military messages during WWI ...

EDITOR'S NOTE: The Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma, the third-largest tribe ... is when we went to boarding schools. We lost our language. We lost our history, our culture," Batton said.

On Jan. 22, the Cherokee, Chickasaw and Choctaw Nations moved to intervene in support of U.S. Department of Justice lawsuits ...

You can read the full statement from Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma Chief Gary Batton below: “The Choctaw Nation fully supports the longstanding principle that the state has no jurisdiction over ...