The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday dramatically increased the power of states over Native American tribes and undercut its own 2020 ruling that had expanded tribal authority in Oklahoma, handing a victory to Republican officials in that state.
"To be clear, the court today holds that Indian country within a state's territory is part of a state, not separate from a state," Kavanaugh wrote in a decision that scholars of Native American law said was a major departure from longstanding precedent.
This seems like a drastic change :deeper-sadness:
"Now the state prosecutors can take up the slack and get back to what we have been doing for 113 years," O'Connor added.
This seems like a drastic change :deeper-sadness:
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This is a complete rollback of everything the Native American movement has won in the last 70 years. This is the end of legal sovereignty.