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This Week in Oklahoma Politics, KOSU s Michael Cross talks with Republican Political Consultant Neva Hill and Civil Rights Attorney about the growing controversy over Governor Stitt signing a bill to ban the teaching of Critical Race Theory in Oklahoma schools, lawmakers considering recommendation of a grand jury investigation for Epic Virtual Charter School and Congressman Cole working on legislation allowing the Chickasaw and Cherokee Nations to compact with the state over criminal jurisdiction.
The trio also discusses the state allowing kids between the ages of 12 and 15 to get the Pfizer Coronavirus vaccine and what to expect in the final two weeks of the 2021 legislative session.
Oklahoma Congressman Introduces Bill On Tribal Jurisdiction Compacts
Federal legislation to allow the Chickasaw and Cherokee Nations to compact with the state of Oklahoma on criminal justice was formally introduced today for Rep. Tom Cole, a Chickasaw and one of just a handful of Native Americans in Congress. The introduction comes one day after leaders of the two tribes signaled their support for the bill.
Given the respect that Republicans, and many Democrats, have for Rep. Cole, and with his tribal affiliation, it s no surprise that he has taken the lead role on Capitol Hill in trying to solve the problems caused by the Supreme Court s decision in McGirt v. Oklahoma last summer.
Feeling the Earth Move: Hancock’s Book Examines Religious and Political Aftermath of New Madrid Earthquakes
CONWAY, Ark. (April
7, 2021) – Imagine living in middle America in the early 1800s when a series of
earthquakes disrupts everyday life. How does this literally earth-shaking event
affect you, your community, and the spiritual and political forces already at
work before the ground began to tremble?
Dr. Jonathan
Hancock, associate professor of history at Hendrix College, examines these topics
in his new book,
The earthquake
activity of 1811–12, based in and around the Missouri Bootheel along the New
Madrid Fault, included the strongest quakes the region had experienced in at
Oklahoman
Oklahoma Attorney General Mike Hunter launched an effort Wednesday to preserve state jurisdiction over certain crimes involving Native Americans on reservations and to prevent some state inmates from getting their convictions overturned for crimes committed in Indian Country.
In a petition filed in the case of death row inmate Shaun Michael Bosse, Hunter said the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals overlooked key arguments when it ruled earlier this month that Bosse, a non-Indian, should have been tried in federal court for killing Katrina Griffin and her two children, who were members of the Chickasaw Nation.
The attorney general also said the appeals court should have prevented Bosse from appealing his conviction in the wake of last year’s U.S. Supreme Court decision regarding crimes on Indian reservations because he hadn’t previously raised the question of jurisdiction.