NATIVE AMERICAN RIGHTS FUND - McGirt v. Oklahoma: - The US Supreme Court’s Impact on Indian Country

Who is an One of the tribes that relocated to the Indian Indian? What is Territory in the first-half of the 1800s was the an Indian Tribe? Muscogee (Creek) Nation, whose ancestral home What is the scope was in the Southeast. [...] tribes despite the clear treaty promises to the contrary “would be the rule of the strong, not the McGirt v. [...] In the early years of the Roberts Court, lishment, the impacts on Native provisions in the the Supreme Court lacked an intellectual leader Violence Against Women Act, historical back- in Indian law. [...] Justice how we can succeed in this collective effort and Sotomayor visited the Jemez Pueblo, the Santa the importance of this work in protecting the Domingo Pueblo, the Leadership Institute at the rights of tribes. [...] He asserted that the location where on the grounds that the crime occurred in Indian the crime occurred was “Indian Country,” and country, the Court granted, vacated, and remand- therefore the state court was without authority to ed for reconsideration in light of its decision in convict him of the offense.