Oklahoma court says Kickapoo Reservation was disestablished

ruled the historic Kickapoo Reservation in the central part of the state was disestablished more than a century ago and no longer exists.

The court’s decision involves a case in which a citizen of the Seminole Nation of Oklahoma challenged his state conviction on four counts of lewd acts with a child.

Attorneys for Aaron Charles Buck, 52, argued that because of the U.S. Supreme Court’s landmark 2020 McGirt ruling on tribal land in Oklahoma, the state lacked criminal jurisdiction because the crimes occurred within the historic boundaries of the Kickapoo Nation.

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