John Bennett announced last month he will place his bid to run for Congress in the U.S House of Representatives. The House seat vacancy opened after Mark Wayne Mullin announced his candidacy for the U.S Senate. Unlike the other four Oklahoma congressional district races, Bennett will not be facing an incumbent candidate.
OXFORD, Ala. Native Americans whose ancestors were forced out of the Southeast almost 200 years ago during a purge that cleared the way for white settlers returned Friday for a two-day festival with a name that sums up its purpose: "We have come back."
A busload of Muscogee (Creek) Nation citizens and others in vans and cars traveled from their homes in Oklahoma and elsewhere for a celebration in the east Alabama.
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