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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 man whose appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court reaffirmed the status of tribal reservations in Oklahoma has been arrested, accused of failure to register as a sex offender. Jimcy McGirt, 75, was ...
Today the Seminole Nation of Oklahoma is located in Seminole County, Oklahoma. The entire county of Seminole is a portion of the original Seminole Nation jurisdiction, and covers approximately 633 square miles. The county is a checkerboard of tribal trust property, Indian allotments, restricted Indian lands, and dependent Indian communities.
To allot the communal lands, citizens of the Five Tribes (Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Creek, and Seminole) were to be enumerated and registered by the US government. These counts also included the freedmen – formerly enslaved African-Americans who had been emancipated after the American Civil War, and their descendants.
The jurisdictional barrier was then removed by statute, and the Seminole Nation of Oklahoma filed a second amended petition in the Court of Claims, reasserting the six claims previously denied by the Supreme Court. The Court of Claims denied three claims entirely, allowed one in full and two in part. Seminole Nation was awarded $18,388.30.
Pages in category "Seminole Nation of Oklahoma" The following 17 pages are in this category, out of 17 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...