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Re:U.S. Supreme Court deems half of Oklahoma a Native Americ... by rswail on Friday July 10, 2020 @05:24AM (#23789640)
I think it's interesting that a debate about the impact of adverse possession upon the original land owner has resulted from a SCOTUS decision about a Treaty between the United States and an Indian nation.

On what basis was the rest of Oklahoma not "adversely possessed"?

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Re:U.S. Supreme Court deems half of Oklahoma a Native Americ... by dragonwriter on Friday July 10, 2020 @05:34AM (#23789695)
Reservations aren't property of the tribe or nation, they are areas of federal jurisdiction under a Constitutional reserved power within which the tribe and federal government has certain jurisdictional rights concerning members of the tribe, and where the state is excluded from certain jurisdictional rights it would otherwise have over territory within the state.
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