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The Supreme Court is set to decide the fundamentals of a murder case that has implications for jurisdiction in Oklahoma. The basic question revolves around which court should decide the case of a Muscogee man accused of murdering another Muscogee man on traditional Muscogee reservation land. But the decision means a definitive federal legal ruling on the contention the Muscogee (Creek) Nation and other Oklahoma tribes have held all along: Oklahoma reservation boundaries were never disestablished as the state maintains. We’ll break down the legal case and discuss what changes—and what doesn’t—because of the Supreme Court’s ruling.
Guests:
Sarah Deer (Muscogee (Creek) Nation) – professor in women, gender, and sexuality studies in the
School of Public Affairs and Administration at the University of Kansas
Jonodev Chaudhuri (Muscogee (Creek) Nation) – Ambassador for the Muscogee (Creek) Nation
Kevin Dellinger (Muscogee (Creek) Nation) – attorney general for the Muscogee Creek Nation
Break 1 Music: Stomp Dance (song) Various Artists (artist) Stomp Dance Songs Of The Muscogee Nation, Volume 1 (album)
Break 2 Music: Electric Pow Wow Drum (song) A Tribe Called Red (artist) A Tribe Called Red (album)
The irony of it all..in 1979,..the Creek Nation booted illegally out its tribe the descendants of former enslaved people of African descent classified under article II of the 1866 treaty, yet now have to defend article III of the same treaty which determined the post civil war territory of the Creek Nation…
This goes to show that the treaty is still alive in its entirety.
All lands should be returned to the tribes, they would take better care of the grandmother than any white man’s government
land Jurisdiction has nothing to do with the act that took place !