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Supreme Court, which found that much of eastern Oklahoma, including a large swath of its second-largest city, Tulsa, remains a Native American reservation because it were never disestablished by Congress.

Supreme Court’s landmark 2020 decision that found that much of eastern Oklahoma, including Tulsa, remains an Indian reservation because it was never formally disestablished by Congress.

“Wagner was going to be disestablished and we protested that decision,” Mr. Prigozhin said Monday.

Supreme Court reversed the state child molestation convictions of McGirt because he is Native American and the crime occurred on a tribal reservation that was never disestablished by Congress.

Federal policies at various points in history sought to disestablish reservations and force Native Americans into cities.