Paria sans portefeuille"Many of these 'founding figures' of ours were also big land speculators."
"Thomas Jefferson wrote in his private diary that he had balanced the federal budget on the Indian land sales."
#RobertMiller and #RobbieEthridge discuss their book "#APromiseKept: The Muscogee (Creek) Nation and McGirt v Oklahoma"
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Scholars' Circle - Book analysis - A Promise Kept: The Muscogee (Creek) Nation and McGirt v Oklahoma - January 8, 2023
In 2020, the Supreme Court surprised many observers by holding up the rights of the Muscogee (Creek) nation. In McGirt v Oklahoma, the Court held that the Creek Nation retained its sovereign rights over a very large part of Eastern Oklahoma. The decision began with a poetic line: “At the end of the