Keith Davis, right, leaves a courtroom in the Latimer County Courthouse following a November hearing.Â
A Latimer County judge ruled that the reservation status of the Choctaw Nation was never disestablished by Congress.
âIt appears that at one time Congress considered or anticipated the disestablishment of the Indian nations and some steps were taken forward that goal through the granting of allotments and possible other measures,â District 16 Associate District Judge Bill Welch wrote in his ruling. âBut steps in the direction of disestablishment fall short of clear language by Congress disestablishing the Choctaw Nation.â
Welch made his ruling less than two weeks after a November evidentiary hearing that was ordered by the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals in the case against 79-year-old Keith Elmo Davis.
What a year (book) at Hamilton, NY Public Library
Travis L. Olivera
We are pleased to announce the newest addition to our local online resources, digital yearbooks! More specifically, the Hamiltonians, yearbooks from Hamilton Central School from the years 1950-1989, excluding for some unknown reason 1969!
These are available for free to anyone who wants to look at them. You can find them on the “Local History” tab on our website, or through New York Heritage’s website (NYHeritage.org) if you want to hunt a bit (and find other neat New York history gems).
This was a project that had been ongoing for some time, beginning a few years ago with previous assistant director Meghan Bremiller responding to an ad from the Oklahoma Department of Corrections who was reaching out to institutions to have their inmates digitize materials. We took them up on their offer, sent them a few boxes of yearbooks and they returned them, along with CDs filled with PDFs from every book - even the ad