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Speaker 1: Patrick Murphy was found guilty of murder by a jury

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Speaker 1: in Macintosh County, and a judge sentenced him to death. Oklahoma,

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Speaker 1: nineteen ninety nine. A man stabbed on the side of

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Speaker 1: the road left to die. This murder would set the

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Speaker 1: stage for a Supreme Court battle over the reservation of

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Speaker 1: five Native American tribes, including mine.

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Speaker 2: A man convicted of first every murder will no longer

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Speaker 2: face a death sentence after an appeals court ruled the

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Speaker 2: state of Oklahoma can't prosecute him.

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Speaker 1: This isn't a story about who Patrick Murphy killed, It's

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Speaker 1: about where he did it. Patrick Murphy says the state

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Speaker 1: can't prosecute him because the murder happened on his tribe's reservation.

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Speaker 1: Oklahoma argues that reservation no longer exists. This summer, the

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Speaker 1: Supreme Court will decide the future of half the land

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Speaker 1: in Oklahoma.

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Speaker 3: Every tribe has sovereignty, and this is not given to us,

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Speaker 3: it's within us.

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Speaker 1: My name is Rebecca Nagel and I'm a citizen of

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Speaker 1: Cherokee Nation. You're listening to This Land from Crooket Media.

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Speaker 1: In this podcast, we're going to go way back to

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Speaker 1: the Trail of Tears. The story of how my people

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Speaker 1: came to Oklahoma, to the story of my family, the

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Speaker 1: treaty they signed, and why they were killed for our land.

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Speaker 1: This case has involved mistakes and the agent that was

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Speaker 1: in charge of it somehow just got the location wrong

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Speaker 1: by about a mile and a half or so, and

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Speaker 1: the Trump administration.

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Speaker 3: There was pressure from boiling gas interests in Oklahoma that

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Speaker 3: encouraged them to intervene quickly.

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Speaker 1: Also scare tactics.

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Speaker 3: That's one hundred and fifty five murders, one hundred and

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Speaker 3: thirteen rapist, and over two hundred fallons who committed crimes

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Speaker 3: against children.

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Speaker 1: But for the people of my tribe and the four

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Speaker 1: other tribes in Oklahoma, this case has never been about

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Speaker 1: any of that. It's about our survival. We're still here.

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Speaker 3: It's very important to us as a people that we

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Speaker 3: have our reservation boundaries that ties us to who we are.

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Speaker 1: But nothing is guaranteed.

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Speaker 3: Are they going to stick with their principles and be

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Speaker 3: a court and rule in favor of mister Murphy and

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Speaker 3: the tribes? Are they just going to start making stuff up?

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