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Oklahoma is – and always has been – Native land

  • Written by Dwanna L. McKay, Assistant Professor of Race, Ethnicity, and Indigenous Studies, Colorado College
imageDelegates from 34 Native tribes at the Creek Council House in Indian Territory, now called Oklahoma, 1880.National Archives

Some Oklahomans are expressing trepidation about the Supreme Court’s recent ruling that much of the eastern part of the state belongs to the Muscogee (Creek) Nation. They wonder whether they must now pay taxes to or be...

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