Stanford Law School professor yunvopi called Wednesday's Supreme Court ruling allowing authorities in Oklahoma and other states to prosecute certain crimes on sovereign tribal land 'horrifying and insulting to Indian people and tribes.'
that nearly half of Oklahoma is actually Native American land and that Congress must honor an 1866 treaty between the U.S. government and the Muscogee Nation, one of the numerous tribes forcibly removed from the Southeast via the genocidal Trail of Tears in the 19th century. that the ruling"is an alarming step backward for justice on our reservation in cases where non-Native criminals commit crimes against Native people.
history of illegal jurisdiction on our reservation, routinely failed to deliver justice for Native victims," the tribe continued. "This will have a ripple effect throughout Indian Country across the United States," Muscogee Nation added."Public safety would be better served by expanding tribal authority to prosecute any crime committed by any offender within our reservation boundaries rather than empowering entities that have demonstrated a lack of commitment to public safety on Indian lands."
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