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The Red Nation Podcast

Oklahoma: welcome to the rez w/ Rebecca Nagle

The Red Nation Podcast

The Red Nation

Society & Culture, History

4.8943 Ratings

🗓️ 14 July 2020

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Rebecca Nagle, Cherokee journalist and host of the This Land podcast, breaks down the recent McGirt decision, which found that half of Oklahoma remains an Indian reservation.

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0:00.0

And Cool. So this can be pretty brief if you want unless you want to elaborate.

0:29.7

I'm totally down with it.

0:30.8

But I just have a couple of questions like

0:35.6

I mean the first one is like why aren't you speaking Creek or Muskogee right now I thought that it's now

0:41.6

land that has been completely given back and they're

0:44.7

telling people that they have to go back to their country if they speak.

0:50.3

There's like a lot of panic I think in Oklahoma right now, but the actual on the ground

0:56.9

implications of the case are pretty.

0:59.9

I think what's ironic is the folks whose lives are going to be most affected by it are

1:06.1

tribal citizens who live on their tribes reservation.

1:08.9

So it's going to impact our tribes criminal jurisdiction us, for folks who work for their tribe, it could impact some taxation.

1:18.0

That part actually remains unclear, but for Joe Schmo that lives in Broken Arrow,

1:23.0

his life is gonna just move forward as normal.

1:27.1

Yeah, so there are like broader kind of cultural

1:29.8

and political implications to this decision. I think we're seeing some of the kind of fear-mongering

1:35.4

around like, oh, I think what was his name?

1:38.2

Ted Cruz posted like, oh, now you're

1:40.2

going to give half of Oklahoma back,

1:42.2

like what's next in Manhattan?

1:44.2

And then today, as we're recording this morning,

1:47.9

the Washington football team

1:49.7

announced that they're gonna retire the mascot,

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