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 ridiculous. Go to Tulsa, Oklahoma and tell me you’re on an Indian reservation.
And we don’t yet know how far this is going to go and where it will lead.
Now, a ruling from the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals has it that three more reservations exist in Oklahoma.
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Blog entry by Allan Wall, published May 20th, 2023, on VDARE.COM.
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