The US supreme court has ruled that a large part of eastern Oklahoma remains a Native American reservation, a decision state and federal officials warn could throw the entire state into chaos.
The court’s 5-4 decision, written by Justice Neil Gorsuch, means that Oklahoma prosecutors lack the authority to pursue criminal cases against Native American defendants in parts of Oklahoma that include most of Tulsa, the state’s second-largest city.
“On the far end of the Trail of Tears was a promise,” Gorsuch wrote in a decision on Thursday, joined by the court’s liberal members. “Forced to leave their ancestral lands in Georgia and Alabama, the Creek Nation received assurances that their new lands in the west would be secure forever … Today we are asked whether the land these treaties promised remains an Indian [Native American] reservation for purposes of federal criminal law. Because Congress has not said otherwise, we hold the government to its word.”
The court’s ruling casts doubt on hundreds of convictions won by local prosecutors. But Gorsuch suggested optimism. “In reaching our conclusion about what the law demands of us today, we do not pretend to foretell the future and we proceed well aware of the potential for cost and conflict around jurisdictional boundaries, especially ones that have gone unappreciated for so long,” he wrote.
Bravo Trump! Trump is such a great great bigly nationalist. He appointed such a great great bigly conservative! Neil Gorsuch is such a tremendous guy… look at how nationalist he is by breaking America apart! Nice ain’t it? Clearly Trump needs 4 more years to destroy even more. What will the European Americans living in that territory do now? Will they have to go to war again thanks to these traitors?
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All of America belongs to the Native American peoples, they never gifted it to the Europeans, the blacks, Hispanics, or any one else, it was stolen from them, and what little is left of Native lands is still being stolen from them. Anyone interested in this subject should read GEORGE CATLIN’s books on the Native Americans which contain brilliant original paintings of the Natives peoples, painted in the 1830s. George Catlin witnessed first hand the forced removal of the Native people from Georgia and other Southern States.
I hate to pop your bubble Mike but white Europeans were here before the redskins. Fact,
I hate to pop your bubble Clark but where do you get your “facts” from? Have you been brainwashed by too much Jewish/Hollywood history of America. Did the European who were in America before the redskins also have bronze colored skin?
You are all idiots that is national land for native Americans there has been no break from the united states. As a native American, I ask you to post your name when publishing so we can inform you correctly