An Eastern Oklahoma tribal committee rejected a bill last week that would have amended the tribe’s marriage code to recognize tribal members in same-sex marriages.
An Eastern Oklahoma tribal committee rejected a bill last week that would have amended the tribe’s marriage code to recognize tribal members in same-sex marriages.
An Eastern Oklahoma tribal committee rejected a bill last week that would have amended the tribe’s marriage code to recognize tribal members in same-sex marriages.
The Inter-Tribal Council of the Five Civilized Tribes, or ITC, has issued a retort to Governor Kevin Stitt’s One Oklahoma Taskforce, a 13-member panel meant to construct a report around the landmark McGirt decision’s supposed negative effects. The McGirt v. Oklahoma Supreme Court decision in 2020 affirmed that tribal reservations in the state — and thus, tribal jurisdictions —remained intact. Gov. Stitt, elected in 2018, has attempted to upend the decision in the time since, insisting that Oklahoma’s jurisdictions have been fractured by tribal power.