And in the last of your published ICWA case updates this morning, here is a case from Utah:
Cherokee Nation
NYTs: “Plenty of Vaccines, but Not Enough Arms: A Warning Sign in Cherokee Nation”
Here.
Cherokee Nation Reservation Boundaries Case out of the Oklahoma Court of Last Resort
We also find this District Court appropriately applied McGirt to determine that Congress did establish a Cherokee Reservation and no evidence was presented showing that Congress explicitly erased or disestablished the boundaries of the Cherokee Reservation or that the State of Oklahoma had jurisdiction in this matter.
Hogner v. State of Oklahoma
Briefs:
WaPo: “The Jeep Cherokee is not a tribute to Indians. Change the name.”
By Angela Riley, Sonia Katyal, and Rachel Lim, here.
See also, the commentary in the Detroit Free Press featuring Stacy Leeds et al.
Cherokee Prisoner’s Second Habeas Petition Denied Despite McGirt
Here are the materials in Berry v. Whitten (N.D. Okla.):
Stat: “‘They’ve been following the science’: How the Covid-19 pandemic has been curtailed in Cherokee Nation”
Here.
Tenth Circuit Confirms Sentence on Cherokee Nation Citizen’s Conviction for Child Neglect
Here is the opinion in United States v. Clark.
Motions to Dismiss State Prosecutions under McGirt
A flurry of motions has come in. Here is the motion to dismiss a criminal complaint on the Cherokee reservation in State of Oklahoma v. Nichols (Tulsa County Dist. Ct.):
Here is the motion to dismiss in a case involving a Creek reservation crime where the defendant marked “I” on the racial identity box, State of Oklahoma v. Williams (Tulsa County Dist. Ct.):
And here is the motion to dismiss in State of Oklahoma v. Shaffer (Tulsa County Dist. Ct.), where the defendant was unenrolled at the time of the crime and is now seeking enrollment at Cherokee:
Cherokee Habeas Petitioner’s Claim under McGirt Dismissed as Time-Barred
Here are the materials in Berry v. Bragg (N.D. Okla.):
NYTs: “Black, Native American and Fighting for Recognition in Indian Country”
Here.
