That’s pretty much what I figured. As explained in the SCOTUS Blog post, Gorsuch’s opinion actually appears to me to be sound. His liberal co-horts — well — I cannot imagine what their scribblings were to justify their concurring opinions.
Gorsuch certainly did much better with this one than with what I call his “Gaysuch” ruling expanding the Civil Rights Act to cover LGBT employees.
I suppose there could be complications with property tax payments and other local issues when dealing with Creek Indians and the descendants of the Trail of Tears folks. Thanks to the parceling of land, with most of it now in the hands of non-Indians, rather than a communal existence deal with this reservation, Oklahoma is NOT going to turn into a place where I-40 and I-44 get shut down on a regular basis, like the NY Thruway does by the Senecas when some dispute affects their actual full-on, landed reservation. At least I don’t think so.
Examples of colonial attributes adopted by these five tribes include Christianity, centralized governments, literacy, market participation, written constitutions, intermarriage with white Americans, and plantation slavery practices.I have visited the Chief Vann House Historic Site and the Cherokee Capital at New Echota several times in my youth and adulthood. Odd though, I lived in Rome, Georgia for many years and never visited the home of another Cherokee Chief, Major Ridge, even driving by it numerous times through the years.
Chieftains Museum/Major Ridge Home
Come to think of it, I even went to an Indian Pow-Wow once just down the road at Ridge Ferry Park, but still never have been inside his home. Oh, and yes, Major Ridge did own a ferry over the Oostanaula River.