In 2020, the United States Supreme Court issued a very significant Indian Law case impacting the future of Oklahoma and the Indian Nations in that state. The consequences that have ensued so far, and that are coming in the future, are so important to Oklahoma that a professor at the University of Tulsa College of Law is teaching a semester long class just on this one case. I do not think that very many Supreme Court cases throughout our history have had entire college courses taught on them? Obviously, Roe v. Wade and Brown v. Board of Education, for example, have had greater impacts on the United States and American society at large, but McGirt is surely the most important Indian law case, at least to Oklahoma and the Indian Nations located there, that the Court has issued in well over one hundred years?
The professor at Tulsa Law School is using as the primary textbook the book Professor Ethridge and I wrote – Robert J. Miller & Robbie Ethridge, A Promise Kept: The Muscogee (Creek) Nation and McGirt v. Oklahoma (University of Oklahoma Press 2023). https://www.linkedin.com/posts/conor-cleary-88944132_today-marks-the-end-of-my-third-year-as-an-activity-7192172093952679937-OtN8
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