There are 27 indian reservations in the state of Oklahoma, which was once known as Indian Territory. In a stunning blow to Oklahoma’s state government, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled Thursday that much of eastern Oklahoma is located on an Indian reservation. In a 5-4 ruling , the justices declared that Congress never diminished or disestablished the land as a reservation. Supreme Court says nearly half of Oklahoma is an Indian which ruled in 5-to-4 vote that much of eastern Oklahoma remains part of an Indian reservation. The state has no “There’s no US Supreme Court opens Pandora’s box with ruling that half of Oklahoma is ‘Indian country’ Nevertheless, Republican Justice Neil Gorsuch invoked the bloody history of the taming of America when delivering the court’s opinion, declaring that “on the far end of the Trail of Tears was a promise,” that promise being sovereignty for the Creek Indians over their own land, under an 1833 Oklahoma does not have reservations like more western states have; Oklahoma WAS a reservation, so the Native culture is intertwined into everything. Several tribes have cultural centers; the Cherokees have a very large one near Tahlequah. Muskogee has a nice, but small, Five Civilized Tribes Museum. Reservations are sovereign territory, neither a part of nor subject to the laws of the state(s) in which they are located, so the State of Oklahoma had no jurisdictional relevance unless such was
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