{"id":232262,"date":"2020-07-15T11:00:17","date_gmt":"2020-07-15T05:30:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/?p=232262"},"modified":"2020-07-15T09:41:36","modified_gmt":"2020-07-15T04:11:36","slug":"scotus-for-purposes-of-major-crimes-act-land-reserved-for-creek-nation-since-19th-century-remains-native-american-territory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/post\/2020\/07\/15\/scotus-for-purposes-of-major-crimes-act-land-reserved-for-creek-nation-since-19th-century-remains-native-american-territory\/","title":{"rendered":"SCOTUS | For purposes of Major Crimes Act, land reserved for Creek Nation since 19th century remains Native American territory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span class=\"s2\"><strong>Supreme Court of the United States of America (SCOTUS):<\/strong> The Supreme Court of the United States, in what is being touted as a landmark judgment in favour of Native Americans\u2019 rights, held with a 5-4 majority that a major part of the state of Oklahoma is reserved land falling under Native American territory (referred to as \u201cIndian territory\u201d in the judgment) and debars state and local courts from trying criminal cases involving members of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation. It reaffirmed the reservation enjoyed by the Creek, granted to the Indians in a treaty dating back almost two centuries. The Court held that since the reservation had been promised in perpetuity, and although breached several times, it has never been extinguished or revoked by the Congress, and should, therefore, still be in place. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span class=\"s2\"><b>Background\u00a0<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span class=\"s2\"> The appellant, Jimcy McGirt, is a convicted sexual offender convicted by the Oklahoma state court. However, he argued in post conviction proceedings that the state court worked beyond its jurisdiction in prosecuting him since \u201che is an enrolled member of the Seminole nation of Oklahoma and his crimes took place on the Creek Reservation.\u201d He contends that he should be re-tried, only this time in a federal court, as per the Major Crimes Act (MCA) which states that Indians committing crimes on tribal lands should only be subjected to federal trials.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span class=\"s2\"> The Creek refers to the five present-day Native American tribes (the Muscogee, Cherokees, Chickasaws, Choctaws, and Seminoles)- that were displaced from what is now Georgia and Alabama on the promise that, in exchange, they will get to keep forever the lands which now encompasses the entire eastern half of the state of Oklahoma, referred to in the judgement as \u201cIndian territory.\u201d The Creek nation was allowed to govern themselves, free from interference by any state or territory enjoyed self-government. The issue at hand is whether the Indian reservation is still in place today, which shall determine whether tribals fall under the purview of federal criminal law exclusively. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span class=\"s2\"><b>Majority Opinion:<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span class=\"s2\">Gorsuch, J., delivered the opinion of the Court, in which Ginsburg, Breyer, Sotomayor, and Kagan, JJ., joined. <\/span><\/p>\n<ul class=\"ul1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li class=\"li3\"><span class=\"s2\">The Congress established the reservation in a series of treaties with the tribals which guaranteed the territory as \u201ca permanent home to the whole Creek Nation of Indians.\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"li3\"><span class=\"s2\">The court accepts that \u201cOnly the Congress can divest a reservation of its land and diminish its boundaries.\u201d However, an intention to dissolve a reservation must be clearly expressed, for instance, through explicit references to cession or similar language, and compensation to tribals. Even though steps such as the Creek Allotment Agreement, which reduced the area under Creek reservation, and abolishment of the Creeks\u2019 tribal court were undoubtedly major intrusions into Creek sovereignty, such acts cannot be interpreted to mean an elimination of all tribal interests in the land in the absence of even a single Congress legislation indicating such an intention. <\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"li3\"><span class=\"s2\">The majority dismissed contemporary events in considering the question of disestablishment citing a lack of ambiguity in the original meaning of the law. Similarly, the Court rejected demographics as a ground for disestablishing or diminishing reservations, regardless of the fact that only 10-15% of the inhabitants of the concerned territories are Indian. The Court renounces the use of extra textual sources such as these, when the meaning of the statute is already clear. <\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"li3\"><span class=\"s2\">The Court reaffirms the creation of tribal reservations in Oklahoma, which the state was trying to reclassify as \u201cdependent Indian communities.\u201d The court rejects Oklahoma\u2019s argument by mentioning the numerous treaties signed by the federal government and statutes passed by the Congress, the repeated mentions of \u201cCreek reservation\u201d by the Congress in its statutes, <\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"li3\"><span class=\"s2\">The Court holds that Oklahoma\u2019s Enabling Act transferred all non-federal, state-law cases to state court and all federal-law cases to federal district courts, and Oklahoma doesn\u2019t have the jurisdiction to try tribals for major cases in its own courts.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"p4\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span class=\"s2\"><b>Dissent:<\/b><br \/>\nRoberts, CJ,\u00a0 with whom Alito, J. and Kavanaugh, J., join, and with whom Thomas, J. substantially joined. <\/span><\/p>\n<ul class=\"ul1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li class=\"li3\"><span class=\"s2\">Roberts, C.J., said that the \u201ctouchstone\u201d for determining the validity of tribal reservation is congressional \u201cpurpose\u201d or \u201cintent.\u201d <i>South Dakota <\/i>v. <i>Yankton Sioux Tribe<\/i>, 522 U. S. 329, 343 (1998), which can be gauged through three kinds of evidence:<br \/>\nA. the relevant Acts passed by Congress;<br \/>\nB. the contemporaneous understanding of those Acts and the historical context surrounding their passage; and<br \/>\nC. the subsequent understanding of the status of the reservation and the pat- tern of settlement there. As the Tribes, the State, and Congress have recognized from the outset, those \u201creservations were destroyed\u201d when \u201cOklahoma entered the Union.\u201d S. Rep. No. 101\u2013216, pt. 2, p. 47 (1989).\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"li3\"><span class=\"s2\">The \u201creservations were destroyed\u201d when \u201cOklahoma entered the Union,\u201d and has been recognized by the State, the Tribe and the Congress, proven through multiple examples in the judgement.<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"li3\"><span class=\"s2\">Criticised the majority for looking at the acts in isolation and through a restricted lens of contemporary evidence, instead of looking at them as a whole to determine legislative intent.<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"li3\"><span class=\"s2\">The three conditions of the Solem test are satisfied, signifying that the Congress did intend to disestablish the reservation. <\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"li3\"><span class=\"s2\">\u201cApplied properly, our precedents demonstrate that Congress disestablished any reservation possessed by the Creek Nation through a relentless series of statutes leading up to Oklahoma statehood. \u201c<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"li3\"><span class=\"s2\"> By looking at the subsequent treatment of the area by the Congress, Oklahoma, tribals and non-tribals and its demographic composition,<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>disestablishment can be proved. \u201cCongress enacted several statutes progressively eliminating restrictions on the alienation and taxation of Creek allotments, and Congress subjected even restricted lands to state jurisdiction.\u201d Even the Creek itself has conceded that no reservation exists. Oklahoma\u2019s unquestioned, century-long exercise of jurisdiction, especially since the passing of the Enabling Act, supports the conclusion that no reservation persisted after it was granted statehood.<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"li3\"><span class=\"s2\">Demographically,<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>the population of the lands is approximately 85%\u201390% non-Indian. <\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"li3\"><span class=\"s2\">\u201cBeyond the criminal law, the decision may destabilize the governance of vast swathes of Oklahoma,\u201d since the repercussions of the decision will not be limited to criminal law, resulting in several federal laws that can lead to complications. <\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"p2\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span class=\"s2\"><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 [McGirt v. Oklahoma, 591 U. S. ____ (2020), No. 18\u20139526, decided on 09-07-2020]<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Supreme Court of the United States of America (SCOTUS): The Supreme Court of the United States, in what is being touted as <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":67011,"featured_media":32691,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,12],"tags":[42518,24554,42517,42519,42520,42521],"class_list":["post-232262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-casebriefs","category-foreigncourts","tag-creek","tag-criminal-cases","tag-mcgirt","tag-native-american-tribes","tag-permanent-home","tag-sexual-offender"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.4 (Yoast SEO v26.4) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>SCOTUS | 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