Mealey's (September 30, 2022, 1:03 PM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — A District of Columbia federal judge on Sept. 29 dismissed the second suit of a small Oklahoma Indian tribe against the Department of the Interior (DOI) seeking a declaration that the tribe is part of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation and beneficiary of an 1833 Creek treaty that gives it shared jurisdiction over the vast Creek reservation, finding that the tribe failed to state a valid claim and that its action is barred by collateral estoppel....