Supreme Court upholds American Indian treaty promises, orders Oklahoma to follow federal law
- Written by Kirsten Carlson, Associate Professor of Law and Adjunct Associate Professor of Political Science, Wayne State University
The eastern part of Oklahoma, about half of the state's total land, was granted by Congress to Native American tribes in the 19th century, and is still under tribal sovereignty, the Supreme Court has ruled.Kmusser, based on 1890s data/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SALand in eastern Oklahoma that the United States promised to the Creek Nation in an 1833...

