On July 9th the US Supreme Court, in a case involving a rape conviction, effectively ruled that about half of the state of Oklahoma is reservation land. The decision doesn't immediately affect private property owners or oil producers but prevents Oklahoma from bringing criminal charges against Native Americans in the eastern part of the state.
Much of what is now Oklahoma had been promised to indigenous people in exchange for them being forced from their homes in the 1830's. The Indian Removal Act affected approximately 60,000 people from the Cherokee, Creek, Seminole, Chickasaw and Choctaw nations, along with their African slaves. The majority opinion said that a promise from Congress had guaranteed the Creek tribe land for a permanent home in what became Oklahoma in exchange for forcing them from their ancestral lands in Georgia and Alabama.
The decision could have regulatory and tax implications for the oil industry; Oklahoma is the 4th largest US crude oil producer. The Five Tribes and the state issued a joint statement on Thursday saying that they were working together on a framework of shared jurisdiction to “support public safety, our economy and private property rights.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/09/us/supreme-court-oklahoma-mcgirt-creek-nation.html
Much of what is now Oklahoma had been promised to indigenous people in exchange for them being forced from their homes in the 1830's. The Indian Removal Act affected approximately 60,000 people from the Cherokee, Creek, Seminole, Chickasaw and Choctaw nations, along with their African slaves. The majority opinion said that a promise from Congress had guaranteed the Creek tribe land for a permanent home in what became Oklahoma in exchange for forcing them from their ancestral lands in Georgia and Alabama.
The decision could have regulatory and tax implications for the oil industry; Oklahoma is the 4th largest US crude oil producer. The Five Tribes and the state issued a joint statement on Thursday saying that they were working together on a framework of shared jurisdiction to “support public safety, our economy and private property rights.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/09/us/supreme-court-oklahoma-mcgirt-creek-nation.html
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