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Leaders of the Five Tribes say they’re disappointed Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt is canceling hunting and fishing license compacts that were up for renewal on Dec. 31.

Tribal leaders in Oklahoma continue to challenge the legal foundations upon which the state has built its arguments against the McGirt ruling before the U.S. Supreme Court on Jan. 7. The Cherokee Nation, in a brief filed Oct. 29, expressed its stance that the state’s...

In the summer of 2020, the U.S. Supreme Court held in McGirt v. Oklahoma that the Muscogee (Creek) Nation continues to occupy a reservation Congress never disestablished. In doing so, it rejected Oklahoma's fearmongering as a misguided appeal to "the rule of the...