U.S. Supreme Court deems half of Oklahoma a Native American reservation

Re:U.S. Supreme Court deems half of Oklahoma a Native Americ... by manuelabeledo on Thursday July 09, 2020 @03:35PM (#23784144)

> And I have no input in the government that makes their laws. Nor any hope of ever being heard. Yet those laws apply to me just the same.

That is also the reality of 40 million immigrants in the US.

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Re:U.S. Supreme Court deems half of Oklahoma a Native Americ... by _-david-_ on Thursday July 09, 2020 @07:04PM (#23786293)

Surely immigrants chose to come to the US. People in Tulsa didn't chose to be in a Native reservation. They chose to be in Tulsa, Oklahoma, US.

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Re:U.S. Supreme Court deems half of Oklahoma a Native Americ... by manuelabeledo on Friday July 10, 2020 @09:45AM (#23791397)

I find this delightfully ironic.

Tulsa residents actually _chose_ to live in a land that happens to be a native American reservation. They may not have known prior to this day, but the Supreme Court was there to clarify it.

In fact, and given that the Supreme Court dismissed the state arguments about laws passed around the early 20th century, it is not that these territories are _now_ part of the reservation, they _always_ were.

Now, if you were to argue that there may be uncertainty and prejudice against current Tulsa residents, because of the change of the status quo, I would say that, again, this is the reality 40 million immigrants face in the US to this day.

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Re:U.S. Supreme Court deems half of Oklahoma a Native Americ... by kyleee on Thursday July 09, 2020 @05:00PM (#23785167)

Which immigrants?

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Re:U.S. Supreme Court deems half of Oklahoma a Native Americ... by manuelabeledo on Friday July 10, 2020 @09:31AM (#23791279)

All of them.

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