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Gov. Kevin Stitt appointed a special counsel in a case against a Native American man as a northeastern Oklahoma prosecutor asks the state’s highest court to issue an arrest warrant
After a 2020 U.S. Supreme Court ruling defined much of Eastern Oklahoma as a Native American reservation, limiting state jurisdiction over tribal citizens, Congress has taken little interest in addressing
Gov. Kevin Stitt appointed a special counsel in a case against a Native American man as a northeastern Oklahoma prosecutor asks the state’s highest court to issue an arrest warrant
Tribal leaders see a ruling more as an enlargement of scope of tribal jurisdiction than a fundamental shift in their existing sovereignty.
Congress has taken little interest in addressing the issues tribes and Oklahoma officials say a court decision has raised.