In a landmark 5-to-4 decision, the Supreme Court of the United States of America rules that most of eastern Oklahoma, including much of Tulsa, is within a Native American Reservation. Five indigenous tribes, the Cherokee, Choctaw, Chickasaw, Muscogee (Creek) and Seminole Nations were granted that land by Congress in the 1800s in exchange for forcing them off their ancestral lands in the southeastern US. This decision doesn't change much for non-natives living in the area, but it does change the law with regards to who can prosecute Native Americans who commit crimes in those lands, the New York Times reports.

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