Okla. Criminal Appeals Court Says Wyandotte Reservation Was Never Disestablished

(March 11, 2024, 1:44 PM EDT) -- OKLAHOMA CITY — In applying its own precedent from a case regarding the Ottawa and Peoria Reservations, a majority of the Oklahoma Criminal Appeals Court found that Oklahoma lacked criminal jurisdiction over crimes brought against a Cherokee man who was arrested for drunken driving on the Wyandotte Reservation because the crimes were committed by an Indian in Indian country....