Did the United States Give Away Half of Oklahoma? | McGirt v. Oklahoma

Congress never revoked the treaties it signed with the Indian nations so therefore the state governments do not have jurisdiction over them. Simple as that.

If I've learned any thing from supreme court briefs that state courts and appeals courts constantly break laws even when the supreme court has already set a precident

I remember this case in real time back in '20, but I did not know that it was because a pedophile and murderer who emasculated his victim wanted a new trial even if the evidence was rock solid.

Im from Tulsa and am Native American, My sister was in Jail in Wagner co. for Drug Charges and when this passes all Natives were released from all county jails in Eastern OK. Most people here have Native American CDIB cards. You can tell by the license plates, ppl who have Native plates are not in the registry of the Federal Government so cannot be accessed by State or Municipal police. So they have no Idea who is in the car and will most likely face no charges that you cannot prosecute on a federal level. Most felonies get dropped and everybody knows this here.

It's all native land!

The government didn't "give" anything. The various branches of government abrogated the conditions that were enacted to justify the trail of tears.

Only a white European descendent would have framed this in those words.

Piss off you racist punk.

The fact that these things take so many years for no reason means that lives are 1/3 completed in the time it takes. What is the point!!

Mr. Beat can you do a video on why these things take so long, and some potential things that can be done to make legal processes take less time?

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what about my uncle jearld wayne harjo that was sent to death roll and was put to death where his justice he was seminole and creek and has a roll number

I think it's important to note that Oklahoma's lawyers argued that the Muscogee Nation didn't exist anymore, so if they won, that reservation would've been totally dissolved, and likely so would the other big reservations in Oklahoma.

No, the United States did not give away half of Oklahoma, they stole all the native lands to become the United States of America. Total massacre

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The Native Americans should become integrated into the state as their existence separate jeopardizes the states authority which should be absolute besides federal

Bro got sealed away like a mythical creature

you have to appreciate the audacity to murder a man in cold blood and then argue that the case is being handled in the wrong building.

I agree with the decision. I disagree that the decision has caused any chaos, only the reactions to it from the state have. For instance, the state did not have to release anyone from prison. It simply had to give jurisdiction to the tribal and federal governments for retrial. Tribal people and tribal governments are 100% capable of dispensing justice within their own jurisdictions and the federal government is obviously capable of this as well. Unless and until Congress dissolves he reservations, jurisdictional authority remains with the Tribes.

You should do a video about Brown v Entertainment Merchants Association, about how violent video games are protected under free speech.

Neil Gorsuch is by far the most interesting justice on the current court. Very sharp and with - at least - sometimes independent views.
He is also an outspoken advocate for native american rights, which is surprising for a Trump appointed justice.

Yeah, I kind of vaguely noticed recently that on various digital maps you can suddenly see an outline around the entire eastern half of Oklahoma. I figured it probably had something to do with Native American Land but didn't think too deeply about it. Great vid!

A bit of a weird one, but could you cover A.L.A. Schechter Poultry Corp. v. United States sometime?

The hardest thing to explain to my Scottish friend was how American Indian Land works

I fail to see what the issue is. These were both heinous crimes. One involved rape. The other something more vile. As I understand it ... crime like rape have a statute of limitations. What does it matter what court convicted them?

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I'll be on board when they go from briefs to boxers..... Lettem duke it out

As an Oklahoman the tribes absolutely deserve this land as they have been living here for almost 200 years and the osage have been here for longer.

I remember when this case was on the news and so many people thought that the eastern half of Oklahoma became a separate territory.

as a native american, i'm very happy for this big win, i just wish it didn't come out of these 2 maniacs

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Oklahoma should declare war to it's neighbours to get that territories back then

Wait how did Gorsuch vote on the case if he was on the 10th circuit decision too?

Are people actually angry that the court is following the law?

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I would’ve keep his native ass in jail until the rest of his life let the skinwalkers eat him

So was every crime in Tulsa in federal court as a result of ruling even non tribal citizens in cities like Tulsa

You should do a livestream creating your failed vice presidential candidates.

It's time to reject the existence of the tribal system. Dissolve it, roll the lands into the states they are in, and make them full citizens of the US and the states they live in. Never should have set up reservations in the first place.

Awesome, millions of tax dollars just to give a lesser sentence to a brutal murderer and a child r@p!st /s

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i think this was probably the correct decision. we have to disconnect ourselves from the nature of the crimes committed as, thats not what the case was about.

another moronic supreme court ruling great job being idiots justices

To be completely fair, the Native Americans had most of their land taken away, so surely taking only half a state isn't that bad.

Awful decision

The ramifications of this are ugly, what if more indigenous groups start making demands? Or more likely when these native Americans start committing crimes who is going to risk prosecuting them?

Slightly misleading, much of Oklahoma is still treaty land at least for the purpose of criminal prosecutions, unclear to what extent this would apply in other domains, since the issue being examined was does the tribes exist for the sake of criminal prosecutions. The answer was yes the tribes exist as a legal entity and as a group of people, the relevant laws (treaty and Congressional statute), and the legal principles together apply in the criminal law context. But they didn't speak to the other issues that would potentially come up. And that was the dissents main argument, you are going to break everything. And Gorsuch was like, that's the still the result commanded by the treaty's in question. Those treaties are still valid law, and here in this case we are examining the validity of this provision. Whatever other provisions say, we'll get there when we get there.
(For example, if the tribe started choosing to legally evict everyone.... well, I don't know how that would work, because I don't know what the relevant treaty law says. Not only that but that might conflict with other laws passed in the meanwhile, so then we apply conflict of law principles. But if the tribes attempted to do that, well Gorsuch says, we'll address it when it happens. That isn't an excuse to ignore them now.)

I think it sucks and is unfair for non aboriginals in this country; but this injustice only is possible because of the rape of aboriginal's rights over the past centuries. It's ripping a band-aid off, and man it hurts, but we gotta do it.