Supreme Court Rules Nearly Half of Oklahoma is Indian Reservation

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[–][deleted] 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

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

[–]magnora7 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I don't know much about it, but from what I understand the two systems will mesh. Basically if you're native american you live by tribal law rules, but if you're just american then everything carries on as normal. So I think it just frees Native Americans up in that area to live by their own rules.

But there's a lot more details to how it works, I'm sure.

[–]slushpilot 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

You can't have two sets of laws over the same jurisdiction, applied differently to different people... or is this Oklahoma asking us to hold their beer?

If the cowboy shoots an indian, or the indian shoots a cowboy, whose laws apply?