This Land (coming June 3rd)

This Land

Crooked Media

Documentary, Society & Culture

4.8 • 8K Ratings

🗓️ 21 May 2019

⏱️ 2 minutes

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Summary

An 1839 assassination of a Cherokee leader. A 1999 small town murder. Two crimes collide in a Supreme Court case that will decide the fate of one man and nearly half of the land in Oklahoma. Hosted by Rebecca Nagle, Oklahoma journalist and citizen of Cherokee Nation, This Land traces how a cut and dry homicide opened up an investigation into the treaty rights of five Native American tribes. Tune in, beginning June 3rd to Crooked Media's 8-episode series to find out how this unique case could result in the largest restoration of tribal land in U.S. history.

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0:00.0	Patrick Murphy was found guilty of murder by a jury in Macintosh County and a judge sentenced
0:07.4	him to death.
0:09.0	Oklahoma, 1999.
0:11.6	A man stabbed on the side of the road, left to die.
0:16.4	This murder would set the stage for a Supreme Court battle over the reservation of five Native
0:21.5	American tribes, including mine.
0:26.2	A man convicted of first degree murder will no longer face a death sentence after an appeals
0:30.6	court ruled the state of Oklahoma can't prosecute him.
0:34.4	This isn't a story about who Patrick Murphy killed.
0:37.9	It's about where he did it.
0:40.6	Patrick Murphy says the state can't prosecute him because the murder happened on his
0:44.4	tribe's reservation.
0:46.5	Oklahoma argues that reservation no longer exists.
0:51.4	This summer, the Supreme Court will decide the future of half the land in Oklahoma.
0:56.7	Every tribe has sovereignty and this is not given to us.
1:03.0	It's within us.
1:05.1	My name is Rebecca Nagel and I'm a citizen of Cherokee Nation.
1:09.7	You're listening to this land from Cricut Media.
1:13.6	In this podcast, we're going to go way back to the Trail of Tears, the story of how my
1:19.2	people came to Oklahoma, to the story of my family, the treaty they signed, and why they
1:24.6	were killed for our land.
1:28.8	This case has involved mistakes.
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