'Icing on the cake': Native Americans hail ruling that east Oklahoma is tribal land
by Lenzy Krehbiel-Burton in Tulsa, Oklahoma from on (#55QRZ)
Oklahoma no longer has legal authority to prosecute cases involving Native Americans across about 3m acres
The news alert about a ruling from US supreme court took Kimberly Tiger by surprise.
On Thursday, the court ruled that the federal government never formally disestablished the expansive reservation that is home to Tiger's tribe, the Muscogee (Creek) Nation, in Oklahoma.
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