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A dispute erupted this week between police officers from the Muscogee Nation and jailers in a small eastern Oklahoma county that led to one jailer facing a battery charge in tribal court. The ...
The 2020 Supreme Court ruling has led to the recognition of eight tribal reservations in eastern Oklahoma. Federal law limits the power state courts have over tribal citizens on tribal ...
Oklahoma Department of Public Safety Commissioner Tim Tipton, left, speaks during a March 11 meeting of the One Oklahoma Task Force, as Jack Thorp, District 27 district attorney, and Justin Wolf ...
Tribal sovereignty is expected to again be a top issue facing Oklahoma lawmakers and Gov. Kevin Stitt as they returned on Monday to begin the 2024 legislative session. Stitt, a Republican and ...
The Shawnees of the "Mixed Band" became the Eastern Shawnee Tribe. [2] The Eastern Shawnee organized as a federally recognized tribe under the 1936 Oklahoma Indian Welfare Act. [2] In May 2019, the Eastern Shawnee ceremonial grounds flooded with three feet of water. Thirty families were evacuated, and "local roads stayed impassable for weeks."
Oklahoma lawmakers aren’t planning to look into Gov. Kevin Stitt’s concerns about policing on tribal reservations this fall. The governor’s recent reservation public safety task force ...
Map of Tribal Jurisdictional Areas in Oklahoma. This is a list of federally recognized Native American Tribes in the U.S. state of Oklahoma . With its 38 federally recognized tribes, [ 1 ] Oklahoma has the third largest numbers of tribes of any state, behind Alaska and California .
Feb. 22—An Eastern Oklahoma tribal committee rejected a bill last week that would have amended the tribe's marriage code to recognize tribal members in same-sex marriages. Members of the ...