Miami Indians
By statehood in 1907, all Indian reservations in Oklahoma were abolished. But in the Supreme Court’s McGirt decision in 2020, the Creek reservation is still, at least for criminal law purposes, a reservation. This was expanded to also refer to the Cherokee, Seminole, Choctaw, Chickasaw and Quapaw tribes, which are now also said to have reservations. It’s […]
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The Indianapolis Indians are a minor league baseball team, a farm team of the Pittsburgh Pirates. So with all the talk about team mascots with American Indian names, this of course becomes an issue. The Indians of Indianapolis have decided, for now anyway, to retain the name, and they’ve made a deal with an Indiana […]
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