Gossip Roundup: The Sooner State Edition

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• Cherokee Nation general counsel Julian K. Fite only gets paid $90 an hour. Finally, a tribal lawyer admits he is not as worth as much as his fees say he is! [The Oklahoman]

• Interior Department's Inspector General won't name Oklahoma tribes that skirted land-into-trust process in at least 10 instances until final report is released. But since we are not as nice as Earl Devaney, we will do it now! It was the Chickasaw Nation, Chickasaw Nation, Chickasaw Nation, Chickasaw Nation, Chickasaw Nation, Chickasaw Nation, Chickasaw Nation, Chickasaw Nation, Chickasaw Nation, and Chickasaw Nation. Also see: Cherokee Nation and Choctaw Nation. [The Oklahoman]

• The American Indian Cultural Center in Oklahoma City will break ground on November 1, Chickasaw Nation Gov. Bill Anoatubby announced. Groundbreaking on official Chickasaw Nation Governor's Palace and Fun Center still up in the air. [The Oklahoman]

• Forget about Ward Churchill and his war of words with the United Keetowah Band. The next Indian identity battle is occurring right here on Indianz.Com! Is David Yeagley aka Bad Eagle aka Indian Patriot aka Conservative Token really a Comanche from Oklahoma? "I just found out from an EXTREMELY TRUSTWORTHY source that David Yeagley was ADOPTED! His Comanche mother is NOT his birth mother," says the infamous kiowascoutokc. "The great descendent of Bad Eagle has NONE of his ancestor's blood coursing through his veins. No wonder he dyes his hair and wears eyebrow pencil. Yeagley is a white man after all." Someone get Shiela Stogsdill of The Oklahoman on this one. She needs some new ideas. [Indianz.Com Message Board]

• Speaking of David Yeagley, we've written many many many many and many more times that he's not particularly in touch with Indian Country, or the real world for that matter. He proved it yet again on his own message board that he knows little beyond the ramblings that occur in his head. "I did meet a Kiowa man there, briefly. I wonder if that was Kiowascout? Who knows. Kiowa are notorious for envy and fighting with Comanches." Somehow we doubt that is the case today seeing as how EVERYONE knows who kiowascoutokc is. Like duh. [Bad Eagle Forums]