Native-owned coworking space, USDOE probing Owasso, and wild onion dinners
VNN Weekly Digest February 26-March 3
Here’s a look at the week’s top stories:
Wall-breaking announced for new Native-owned coworking space in Broken Arrow
(OKLAHOMA) Though officially platted as a townsite in 1902, like many other cities and towns in Northeast Oklahoma, Broken Arrow’s first permanent residents were Indigenous people. In the case of Broken Arrow, those people were the Muscogee (Creek), who settled in the area during the 1820s and 1830s following forced removal from their ancestral homelands.
U.S. Department of Education opening probe into Owasso Public Schools over Benedict case
(OKLAHOMA) The U.S. Department is opening an investigation into Owasso Public Schools due to a complaint filed by the Human Rights Campaign concerning last month’s death of nonbinary high school student Nex Benedict. In a letter Friday to HRC Director Kelley Robinson, the USDOE said its Office for Civil Rights is opening “the following issues” for investigation — the first being whether the district “failed to appropriately respond to alleged harassment of students in a manner consistent with the requirements of Title IX.”
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Wild onion dinners are back
(MUSCOGEE NATION) Wild onions are in bloom once again, and with them comes the tradition of wild onion dinners that bring Mvskoke people together from across the reservation. One of the largest dinners is hosted annually at the Salt Creek Methodist Church in Holdenville.
Business Beat
Innovative Networking Group designed to Empower Women
(MICHIGAN) Networking is a buzz word constantly used by career coaches and professionals trying to get ahead. But for Angela Schalow, a West Michigan Insurance agent, the traditional way of networking just wasn't cutting it.
WEATHER ACROSS AMERICA
(NATIONAL) A snowy weather pattern continues in the interior mountains of the northwestern U.S. and down into the Sierra Nevada, accumulating snowfall near the Canadian border of the Northern Plains is expected to taper off, another coastal storm is forecast to bring a new round of rain up the Atlantic coast, and much above average, spring-like temperatures are shifting from the Plains/Midwest into the Northeast with a persisting Critical Fire Weather threat.
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