The U.S. Supreme Court’s 2020 McGirt Decision resulted in most of eastern Oklahoma being declared Indian reservation land. According to the McGirt doctrine, Tulsa is all reservation land. Most of it is supposedly on the Muscogee (Creek) tribal reservation with part of it on the Cherokee reservation.
In June, Tulsa’s Mayor Monroe Nichols announced an agreement with the Muscogee (Creek) tribe in which the city of Tulsa pledges not to bring charges against American Indians in the city. This doesn’t just apply to card-carrying members of the Creek and Cherokee tribes. The policy applies to any member of any of the 574 federally recognized Indian tribes in the United States!
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Article by Allan Wall, published July 31st, 2025, on the Oklahoma Constitution website.
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