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The Muscogee (Creek) Nation filed a federal lawsuit Wednesday against the city of Tulsa, arguing Tulsa police are continuing to ticket Native American drivers within the tribe's reservation ...
Tribal jurisdictional areas replaced the tribal governments, [1] with the exception of the Osage Nation. As confirmed by the Osage Nation Reaffirmation Act of 2004, the Osage Nation retains mineral rights to their reservation, [2] the so-called "Underground Reservation". The United States Census has collected data on the reservations since 1990.
The Muscogee Nation, or Muscogee (Creek) Nation, [3] is a federally recognized Native American tribe based in the U.S. state of Oklahoma. The nation descends from the historic Muscogee Confederacy, a large group of indigenous peoples of the Southeastern Woodlands. They commonly refer to themselves as Este Mvskokvlke (pronounced [isti ...
The Oklahoma man at the center of a landmark U.S. Supreme Court case is expected be released from federal prison this month.. Jimcy McGirt, whose case affirmed the Muscogee Nation reservation ...
In Tallahassee, Dailey and city manager Reese Goad validated and welcomed the Muscogee (Creek) Nation's request to form a relationship with Okmulgee, Oklahoma, the nation's capital. "Tallahassee ...
McGirt v. Oklahoma, 591 U.S. ___ (2020), was a landmark [1] [2] United States Supreme Court case which held that the domain reserved for the Muscogee Nation by Congress in the 19th century has never been disestablished and constitutes Indian country for the purposes of the Major Crimes Act, meaning that the State of Oklahoma has no right to prosecute American Indians for crimes allegedly ...
The development is at the center of a long-simmering dispute between two tribal nations. The Muscogee Nation are descendants of people who called the land home and Alabama’s Poarch Band of Creek Indians is a separate tribal nation that shares ancestry with the Muscogee and built the casino after gaining ownership of the site.
The Muscogee Nation convened several law enforcement agencies earlier this week in Tulsa to discuss criminal justice issues on tribal reservations. About 300 people, including some federal ...