The US Supreme Court on Tuesday heard oral arguments in a case concerning an appeal of class action status and a capital case challenging Oklahoma’s jurisdiction over a crime committed in Native ...

Supreme Court: Eastern Oklahoma is American Indian territory 5-4 decision could undo prosecutions of tribal residents The Supreme Court building is photographed early Thursday, July 9, 2020, in ...

Today, the United States Supreme Court ruled 5-4 that Oklahoma has jurisdiction to prosecute non-Indians who commit crimes against Indians in Indian Country. It is the first time in U.S. history that ...

The average person is quite surprised that Civil War battles were fought here in Oklahoma, based, I suppose, on the assumption that as Oklahoma did not become a state until 1907 and, during the war, ...

WASHINGTON—The Supreme Court on Wednesday weighed whether to claw back part of its 2020 decision recognizing nearly half of Oklahoma as Indian country, a legal distinction that prompted outcry from ...

Throughout the nineteenth century, the land known as "Indian Territory" was populated by diverse cultures, troubled by shifting political boundaries, and transformed by historical events that were ...

The Supreme Court issued one of the most consequential decisions of its term on its last day Thursday. No, it wasn’t either of the decisions about President Donald Trump’s tax returns. Instead, it ...

From the establishment of a government for Oklahoma Territory in what is now western Oklahoma, and from the beginning of the reservations held by various Indian tribes in what is now eastern Oklahoma, ...

"Chapter 1, Title Page: Negro and White exclusion towns and other observations in Oklahoma and Indian Territory: essays by Frank G. Speck from The Southern workman / by Frank G. Speck ; edited with an ...

At the heart of a case going to the U.S. Supreme Court during its upcoming session is this question - are there Indian reservations in Oklahoma? Congress dissolved reservations there in the mid-1800s, ...

The Supreme Court hears a capital case in which it will have to decide whether nearly half of Oklahoma, a massive area including much of Tulsa, is an Indian reservation. Today the Supreme Court heard ...