AG says current reservation jurisdictions present challenges

TAHLEQUAH – Many jurisdictional questions have been raised by the McGirt v. Oklahoma decision about how far the reach of tribal, state and federal law enforcement agencies extends onto Native reservations, particularly when non-Natives perpetrate a crime.
Cherokee Nation Attorney General Sara Hill spoke to reporters during an April 6 virtual press conference about the potential effects of McGirt.
“It was important for the tribes to get an acknowledgment by the United States Supreme Court that the treaties made between the United States and the Five Tribes had meaning,” Hill said. “The consequence of that was the acknowledgment that the state had been illegally prosecuting people – Indians or people who had committed crimes against Indians – for 100 years.”

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