By The Fire We Carry by journalist Rebecca Nagle tells the story of the Cherokee Nation and the Supreme Court case McGirt v Oklahoma.
In the summer of 2017, I was scrolling through Facebook when I saw a post from Muscogee legal scholar Sarah Deer. It was about a court case I had not yet heard of. A man on Oklahoma’s death row was arguing the state didn’t have jurisdiction to execute him because he was Native and the murder happened on the Muscogee reservation. Oklahoma argued that reservation no longer existed.
The tribe’s conflicting position meant it was invaded by both the Union and Confederacy and offered little protection from either. Similar divisions broke out within Muscogee Nation, with those loyal to the Union fleeing to Kansas. Four years after Cherokee Nation signed a treaty of allegiance to the Confederacy, General Robert E. Lee surrendered and the American Civil War was over.
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