Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt has appointed a special prosecutor to go after Indigenous hunters who are cited for hunting without a state license on tribal reservations.
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Tulsa to pay $26.25 million to man wrongfully convicted of rape after decades-long fight
The settlement comes after William Henry Jamerson spent more than two decades in prison for a rape conviction that was overturned last year.
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Federal judge affirms Tulsa prosecutor’s right to charge non-Muscogee citizens on reservation
A federal judge ruled against the Muscogee Nation’s initial effort to limit a Tulsa County prosecutor from trying Indigenous people who aren’t citizens of the tribe on its reservation.