Cherokee News Updates

Please Help Locate: Justin Dewayne Baker #MMCP #MMIWCP Justin Dewayne Baker, 41, a U.S. Army veteran, father, and Cherokee Nation citizen, has been missing since January 24, 2025. If you have any information please call Oklahoma Highway Patrol 📞 918-683-3256

As former long-time president of the Goingsnake District Heritage Association, I would like to call a reorganization meeting for the Association. It will take place at 10 a.m. at the John F. Henderson Public Library in Westville on Saturday, January 17th. There are a number of people who are committed to reviving the organization to see that it continues for many more years in the future.

Mitchell, a fifth-generation Collinsville native and citizen of the Cherokee Nation, owns and operates Caddy Corner Consignment & Boutique, a consignment clothing boutique on West Main Street. She also serves on the board of a local no-kill animal shelter. During the discussion, Mitchell and Watts traced shared family connections through the Crutchfield line, whose roots in the area date back generations.

Dwayne Marvin Garrett of Ochelata, Oklahoma, was born June 26, 1945, and passed away November 16, 2025. Dwayne was born into a horse-loving family in California. They raised and raced championship horses in California and Oklahoma for many years, before moving to Oklahoma, where they continued their endeavors. Dwayne attended school at Nelogany, Oklahoma.

The Osage Nation is scheduled to hold its first criminal jury trial May 11–13 in a misdemeanor battery case against Amanda Sue Proctor, according to court records.

Wayland Smalley, gardener, educator, and longtime advocate for soil-first land stewardship, has released his newest book, The Cycle: Pile, Plant, Protect, Pick, a practical and reflective work that blends gardening wisdom with lessons for life, leadership, and community.