A Promise Kept: The Muscogee (Creek) Nation and McGirt v. Oklahoma

by Robert J Miller

"At the end of the Trail of Tears there was a promise," U.S. Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch wrote in the decision issued on July 9, 2020, in the case of McGirt v. Oklahoma. And that promise, made in treaties between the United States and the Muscogee (Creek) Nation more than 150 years earlier, would finally be kept. With the Court's ruling, the full extent of the Muscogee (Creek) Reservation was reaffirmed--meaning that 3.25 million acres...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0806191716
• ISBN13: 9780806191713
• Release Date: January 2023
• Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
• Length: 308 Pages
• Weight: 1.36 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"