Supreme Court Rules Nearly Half of Oklahoma is Indian Reservation

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What's going to happen to the people who live there who aren't local Amerindians?

[–]Vigte[S] 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I have absolutely no idea... that was my first question too. This really came out of no-where so I'm sure it hasn't been thought through very well.

I found this semi-coherent explaination on chokes on vomit reddit.

The immediate consequences are limited to prosecution of major crimes involving Native Americans (either as criminal or victim); those are now a federal matter rather than a state matter, overturning a number of state court convictions that now need to be retried, including McGirt and Murphy (the two cases that made it to the Supreme Court).

The longer term consequences are more complex, but no-one's getting kicked off their current property and it's a matter for the tribes and Oklahoma to negotiate.

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Thanks. I didn't want to read the NYT...

That actually doesn't sound necessarily super horrible and disruptive. I guess we'll see how it plays out though.