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As the newly-inaugurated Second Chief, Millie Thompson Williams will work with the principal chief and tribal council on maintaining culture and traditions. But Williams told ËÄ»¢Ó°Ôºâ€™s Sam Baker she wants to focus on the tribal language.

The effort to expand gambling for two Texas tribes sailed through the U.S. House, but faces a taller task in the Senate.

Thanks to a pair of modern day Johnny Appleseeds, landowners, government agencies and nonprofits are working in nine coastal states from Virginia to Texas to bring back longleaf pines named for the long needles prized by Native Americans for weaving baskets.