Today, the United States Supreme Court ruled 5-4 that Oklahoma has jurisdiction to prosecute non-Indians who commit crimes against Indians in Indian Country. It is the first time in U.S. history that ...
WASHINGTON—The Supreme Court on Wednesday weighed whether to claw back part of its 2020 decision recognizing nearly half of Oklahoma as Indian country, a legal distinction that prompted outcry from ...
Throughout the nineteenth century, the land known as "Indian Territory" was populated by diverse cultures, troubled by shifting political boundaries, and transformed by historical events that were ...
Map of Indian Territory and Oklahoma, U.S. Bureau of the Census, 1890. (Photo by: GHI/Universal History Archive/Universal Images Group via Getty Images) Everything becomes a tax issue eventually, ...
The average person is quite surprised that Civil War battles were fought here in Oklahoma, based, I suppose, on the assumption that as Oklahoma did not become a state until 1907 and, during the war, ...
From the establishment of a government for Oklahoma Territory in what is now western Oklahoma, and from the beginning of the reservations held by various Indian tribes in what is now eastern Oklahoma, ...
The State of Sequoyah: Indigenous Sovereignty and the Quest for an Indian State, by Donald L. Fixico, University of Oklahoma Press, 206 pages, $34.95 In McGirt v. Oklahoma (2020), the Supreme Court ...
"Chapter 1, Title Page: Negro and White exclusion towns and other observations in Oklahoma and Indian Territory: essays by Frank G. Speck from The Southern workman / by Frank G. Speck ; edited with an ...
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