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McGirt v. Oklahoma, 591 U.S. ___ (2020), was a landmark United States Supreme Court case which held that the domain reserved for the Muscogee Nation by Congress in the 19th century has never been disestablished and constitutes Indian country for the purposes of the Major Crimes Act, meaning that the State of Oklahoma has no right to prosecute American Indians for crimes allegedly committed ...
65 Total, 23 Crew, 42 Guest. The Navajo class is a class of Towing, Salvage and Rescue Ships for the Military Sealift Command of the United States Navy. They were ordered in 2017 as the planned replacement for the aging Safeguard -class rescue and salvage ships and Powhatan -class tugboats. A total of ten ships of the class have been planned ...
File:Muscogee Creek Nation Territory.png and File:Boundaries_of_the_Five_Tribes_in_1866.jpg suggest it is just the territory south of Tulsa, but all the news stories about the Supreme Court decision suggest that it is most of eastern Oklahoma (e.g. ). In other words, does the Muscogee (Creek) Nation now include the territories that were once ...
Members of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation Council's Committee on Business, Finance, and Justice voted 1-3 Feb. 15. The vote rejected a bill would have removed language in two sections of the Muscogee ...
“The Ocmulgee Mounds, Ocmulgee River, and all of middle Georgia hold historical significance to The Muscogee (Creek) Nation,” Principal Chief David W. Hill said in a news release.
Alexander Lawrence Posey (August 3, 1873 – May 27, 1908) was an American poet, humorist, journalist, and politician in the Creek Nation. [1] [2] He founded the Eufaula Indian Journal in 1901, the first Native American daily newspaper. For several years he published editorial letters known as the Fus Fixico Letters, written by a fictional ...
Tribal town. A tribal town ( Muscogee talwa, Hitchiti okla) was a form of political and social organization of people in what is now the southeastern United States from at least the 16th century into the 19th century. It had aspects of both a town and a tribe, and was the basic unit of the Muscogee Confederacy (historically called the "Creek ...
For 200 years, the Muscogee Nation has lived in Oklahoma. The federally recognized tribe is made up of the descendants of the Indigenous groups who lived in the South, including Tallahassee.