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MAWS
Part of the Resilience exhibit at the Museum at
Warm Springs is the beaded bag, Fawn and
Flowers. The museum acquired this item in
1999 from Marcia A. Macy-Flynn. Fawn and
Flowers was the Judge’s Choice Award winner
at the 1999 Member Art Show.
The Veterans of Foreign
Wars is hosting the Patriot’s
Pen essay writing contest.
The theme for the 2020-21
competition is “What is Pa-
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The grand prize is $5,000;
and the deadline to enter is
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The VFW-sponsor ed
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Essays are between 300
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Tribal land victory in Oklahoma
The U.S. Supreme Court
last week said that a large
swath of eastern Oklahoma,
including Tulsa, is Native
American land for purposes
of federal criminal law in a
decision that the state argued
could call into question thou-
sands of state prosecutions
for serious crimes.
Justice Neil Gorsuch
penned the 5-4 opinion
joined by the liberals on the
bench.
“Today we are asked
whether the land these trea-
ties promised remains an In-
dian reservation for pur-
poses of federal criminal
law,” Gorsuch wrote. “Be-
cause Congress has not said
otherwise, we hold the gov-
ernment to its word.”
Under the law, crimes in-
volving Native Americans
on a reservation are under
federal, not state, jurisdiction.
The National Congress of
American Indian, along with
the Native American Rights
Fund, applauded the deci-
sion, which confirmed that
the treaty-defined boundaries
of the Muscogee Creek Na-
tion still remain in full force.
Through treaty, the
United States “solemnly guar-
antied” the Muscogee Creek
Nation their reservation as
a “permanent home” in ex-
change for leaving their east-
ern homelands. These guar-
antees are contained in the
Treaty with the Creeks of
1832, and the Treaty with
the Creeks 1833.
In a later treaty, the
United States reaffirmed
that the reservation was “for-
ever set apart as a home for
said Creek Nation.” This was
in the Treaty with the Creeks
of 1866.
Last week’s U.S. Supreme
Court decision reaffirms that
understanding.