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Speaker 1: Yesterday, the amount of land the federal government officially recognized

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Speaker 1: as Indian country as under the jurisdiction of tribes was

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Speaker 1: just fifty five million acres, only two percent of all

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Speaker 1: land in the US. Today that number is seventy four million.

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Speaker 1: This is Rebecca Nagel, and I'm bringing you an update

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Speaker 1: from this land in Kiroked Media. Today, the Supreme Court

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Speaker 1: finally made its ruling on the reservation status of eastern Oklahoma.

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Speaker 1: We won for the majority. Justice Neil Gorsich wrote, and

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Speaker 1: I quote on the far end of the trail of

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Speaker 1: tears was a promise. Forced to leave their ancestral lands

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Speaker 1: in Georgia and Alabama, the Creek Nation received assurances that

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Speaker 1: their new land in the West would be secure forever.

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Speaker 1: Today we are asked whether the land these treaties promised

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Speaker 1: remains an Indian reservation for the purposes of federal criminal law.

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Speaker 1: Because Congress has not said otherwise. We hold the government

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Speaker 1: to its word. It's been a year since I've spoken

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Speaker 1: to you, and a lot has happened, not just today's decision,

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Speaker 1: but a completely different Supreme Court case, new tribal leadership,

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Speaker 1: a second set of oral arguments, and our own in

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Speaker 1: depth investigation on the impact of this decision on past

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Speaker 1: criminal convictions. There is so much to talk about. One

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Speaker 1: week from today, we are going to bring you our

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Speaker 1: coverage of the Supreme Court's ruling and what it means.

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