The Cherokee Nation
Many Oklahoma Indian tribes issue their own license plates. Having those license plates is now becoming a license to get out of paying tolls on Oklahoma turnpikes. And this is not even directly related to Oklahoma’s McGirt fiasco, although it could be exacerbated by it. For the entire blog entry, click here. Blog entry by Allan […]
Oklahoma is a very red state. Since 2004, every single one of Oklahoma’s 77 counties has voted for the Republican presidential candidate. And yet, Oklahoma Governor Kevin Stitt’s re-election bid does not look like a given. His opponent is another state official, education superintendent Joy Hofmeister, elected to that post as a Republican but who […]
On July 27, 2022, an interesting hearing was held in the U.S. Senate. The topic at hand was the controversy over the Oklahoma Descendants of Freedmen, pitting certain blacks against certain Indian tribes which had owned their ancestors. For the entire article, click here. Article by Allan Wall, published August 22nd, 2022, on VDARE.COM.
Two years ago, in McGirt v. Oklahoma, the Supreme Court ruled that the Muscogee Tribe of Oklahoma still has an Indian reservation. This led to the current legal understanding that six Oklahoma tribes have reservations, comprising 43% of Oklahoma’s territory, including the city of Tulsa. It’s a preposterous ruling which may leads to all sorts […]