The complicated relations between Native Americans and the United States took an interesting turn on July 9, 2020, when the U.S. Supreme Court released its ruling in McGirt v Oklahoma (2020). The respondent, Jimcy McGirt, was convicted of raping his wife’s four-year-old grandchild and sentenced to one thousand years in addition to life in prison by an Oklahoma state court. However, McGirt later claimed that because his crimes were committed on Creek Reservation Land secured by an 1832 treaty between the U.S. Government and the Creek (Muscogee) Nation, Oklahoma could not prosecute him.

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