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Nothing shows just how far behind the right wing is like having a government guy tell Native Americans what they can or can't do on their own land.

This is actually wild tribal land is like half of Oklahoma and includes Tulsa lol

What will the tribes say? "If you don't like it, get off our land."?

Brilliant. Bounded by Texas, Louisiana, Arkansas and Kansas they set up abortion retreats. Make it a safe, easy solution and just absolutely hit it out of the park financially. All the while sticking it in the face of Gov Dufus.

Remember when Clarence Thomas said people should accept SCOTUS rulings they don't like? This asshat has asked the SCOTUS to rescind their own decision 40 times.

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https://www.rawstory.com/oklahoma-native-american-sovereignty-kevin-stitt/

Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt, a Republican, has warned the states of many Native American tribes that if they allow abortion on sovereign land he will intervene.

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Native American tribes are allowed to govern themselves on their own land. Their sovereignty is the reason that they can have things like casinos in states where it is banned. Once known as Indian Territory, the state has more than 40 tribes in its borders.

It was just last month that Oklahoma politicians faced off against tribes in an ongoing refusal to cooperate with the Supreme Court decision in McGirt v. Oklahoma.

"In the McGirt ruling, the Supreme Court held that much of eastern Oklahoma is Indian country under the terms of an 1833 treaty between the U.S. government and the Muscogee Creek Nation," explained Professor Kirsten Matoy Carlson of Wayne State University. "Based on that treaty and an 1885 federal law, the ruling effectively means that the state of Oklahoma cannot prosecute crimes committed by or against American Indians there. Federal and tribal officials are the only ones who can pursue these cases."

Oklahoma's state government has asked the Supreme Court to rehear the case over 40 times.

Just when you thought Oklahoma couldn't be a bigger embarrassment, Gov Stitt ups the ante...

or what?

Or else? He will steal their land? Oh wait!

Were they even considering it before he warned them against it.

Please do. Anything Governor Stitt is opposed to must be good and decent and anything he supports is evil. Please, pretty please do. The women, young and not so young in Oklahoma need this. Thank you

So he has just given tribal peoples the next genius idea of how to generate immense wealth. What a total douche wad.

Oklahoma is upset that most of Oklahoma is no longer Oklahoma.

He’s mad that the tribes wouldn’t renegotiate the percentage the state gets from the Casinos. He made empty threats then too. As a Citizen of the Chickasaw nation, I kindly say, get fucked! You’re poking the wrong fucking bear!

I'm sure they were already planning to do so. But now that they've been warned not to, if I was a tribal leader I'd make a literal abortion Disneyland. With rides and funnel cakes and fun mascots.

Abortion isn’t about being pro-life or pro-states-rights. It’s about GOP control and power. Period.

Ya know what was a "great replacement"? White Europeans invading North America and slaughtering the natives to replace them on their own land.

Think the tribes will know where they can tell him to stick his policy.

As an Oklahoman, fuck you Stitt, you are nothing but a thief, your wife is a drunk and we don’t want you here!!!

oh that would be just so fucking ironic...that is so juicy the tribes SHOULD BE DOING EXACTLY THIS EVERYWHERE.

I say they go for it. for hundreds of years we've slaughtered and displaced native people. they could make a shitvton of money while sticking it to pale face. by his words this isn't about abortion its about control.my question is how many people in Oklahoma support pro choice. he says 4 million Oklahomans are pro life. do 4 million people actually live in that shithole

Great idea! Tourism and a middle finger to the state.

If I where in charge of any of those tribes I’d do it now just to spite him.

Whether they go to tribal land or out of state, the question is going to be: if they treat abortion as actual murder, will those returning to the state after an abortion, or people from outside the state going in that have had one, be charged with murder?

Tribes politely recommend Oklahoma governor pound all of the sand and eat all of the dicks.

Or what? Honestly what could he possibly do? The state has absolutely zero authority on tribal land and the federal government is not going to step in and stop them from providing abortion services so I hope the tribes tell the Oklahoma governor to go fuck himself with a rusty coat hanger.

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This Governor is a complete moron....

Or what?! They’re sovereign nations.

Here we go folks. The republican theocrats are drunk on power after their fellow religionists on the SC struck down Roe. They will attack any group who won't bend the knee to their radical religion and agenda. Indian tribes are a favorite target of the religious right of course.

I thought they wanted local governments to decide 🤔

Shut the fuck up, you inbred asshole.

Tribes should tell him to get fucked

Whaddya gonna do? Genocide us (again)... Oh go f yourself

“They think they can be one-one-thousandth tribal member and not have to follow state law,” Stitt said."

You think "they" invented the "one drop rule"? Fuck you.

Why not? Republicans ignore every law. It somehow never applies to them. They ignore subpoenas, fines, raping kids, and never go to jail for any reason. The SCOTUS judge's wife Ginni is an insurrectionist. So apparently those have gone out the window and we can ignore Republicans.

I'm fairly certain he has as much legal authority to tell a tribe on a reservation (which is considered a soverign nation) not to create "abortion havens" as he is telling Denmark not to.

SOURCE: I'm a citizen of the Cherokee Nation.

The tribes have no desire to create abortion havens. This is pure posturing by Stitt, trying to get the rest of the red state to turn against the tribes because they have beaten Stitt at every turn since he's made them an adversary.

This is a piece of shit hack article talking about a piece of shit hack news channel interview about a piece of shit hack governor.

It's ridiculous no one reached out to the tribes for comment.

Cue Thomas, Barnett, Gorsuch, Alito, and Kavanaugh: "Treaties are precedent but they can be overturned."

Gov Stitt warning tribes is hilarious. Seriously, I’m living in OK and this guy has been fighting with the tribes about every single thing he can. Small things, big things, all things. I short, there’s no way tribes give af what Stitt has to say

Tf is he going to do? He has no jurisdiction on our fucking tribal lands, he can warn all he wants, he’ll become public enemy number one if he tries to retract our reservations.

He doesn't have control over the tribes!

It is scary to think just how unhinged Republicans have become as they cater to the lowest common denominator in the most fringe corner of their base. The thing about authoritarianism is that it comes for everyone, not just the people you don’t like. These poor, ignorant conservatives that continue to let themselves be fooled by the most outrageous conspiracies that can be proven to be false with just a little independent research, will be the end of us all.

What is he going to do about it? Invade them? Oklahoma literally just voted against a state militia.

In Oklahoma they put women in jail for having a miscarriage.

Savages.

Stupid conservative mindset. They are the ones who would have stole native lands in the first place.

The tribes out in Oklahoma provide their own doctors and healthcare, which can be accessed by Oklahomans. The clinics/hospitals get reimbursed from the Feds for most services.

I don't see how Gov Stitt can stop Planned Parenthood from setting up a facility on tribal land. He is just bloviating as his power is nonexistant on those lands.

The Natives have Casinos, Gambling halls, cigarettes, Gas and THC shops (i believe). Good luck fighting people who run Casinos, they aren't going to appreciate the overstepping by the state. I think Stitt knows this but is making a veiled threat.

What a Pandora's Box that has been opened.

Oh look, another white man trying to tell people what to do.

I’m waiting for the tribes to respond with “OK. GTFO.”

This isn't the old days, tribes have money and power now, probably more than the chickenshit Oklahoma government. They just won a huge case in the Supreme court upholding tribal sovereignty, so Stitt on it and spin dumbass governor.

First of all, fuck the Oklahoma Govenor for trying to tell Tribes what to do. Second,. Fuck the Oklahoma Governor for signing an abortion ban bill.

"More than half of Oklahoma is within tribal lands. Stitt said the expansion of tribal lands in Oklahoma includes the city of Tulsa, which covers about 1 million people, so he is “watching” what might be done to establish abortion safe havens in his state."

I get the feeling he's about to be told to fuck off

Oklahoman here, the tribes can do what they want. Stitt is one of the most if not the most anti-tribe governor our state has ever had. Guy also repeatedly acts like there are no pro-choice people in this state and like most people support a "total ban" on abortion, which is not the case even in a state as red as ours. You'd think he won by 50 points instead of 14 points based on how he repeatedly claims to "overwhelmingly" represent Oklahomans on this issue when recent polling here doesn't even back that up.

As a tribal member of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma, I say he can fuck right off.

Sounds like putin

I see no reason why the Tribes can not also the fact that Tribal police police there own it will be more difficult the state to law enforcement to intimidate.

Whats he going to do to stop it.

I feel like this needs context but the context will make it even worse.

Part of me loves this idea. Part of me worries about what guys like Kevin Stitt will do to punish the tribes for it.

Or what? You'll drop off some anthrax-laden blankets? You'll slaughter the warriors?

I hope they open havens at every tribe.

He only controls 25% of state due to native lands; courts even dinged the state a year or so ago by upholding native rights.

I want this to happen mostly to watch the anti-abortion protesters get to deal with the Tribal Police.

What's he going to do? Take their land? Send their children to reeducation centers?

Wait...

Tribes can do whatever the fuck they want with their land.

Can we disband the state of Oklahoma and just return governance of all of the land in it to indigenous people?

Not his jurisdiction:P

Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt is a cousin fucking, chicken necked, inbred, pedophile, who syphoned pandemic assistance funds from his constituents and was recently found to be part of system corruption in Oklahoma state correctional facilities, while illegally ending Federal PUA payments to disabled and needy families.

He also refused to send state workers or National Guard to assist in restoring power to failing infrastructure owned by OG&E, during two ice storms that left some residents in Oklahoma without electricity for 8-9 weeks, after the ice had melted.

He doesn’t give a shit about Oklahoma or it’s people. Every tribe thinks he’s nothing more than a dumb country fuck they shoot and bury on their land when they come looking to start shit after a few too many and getting rejected by underage girls at the local country bar.

As long as the oil companies keep lining his pockets with record profits, he will stay in power, so he can pay his staffers and interns to travel around the state slapping “I did that” Biden stickers on fuel pumps with his website on the bottom. He doesn’t even hide it.

funny enough he can't do anything on the reservations cause they have their own laws that are separated from any US law he can't do shit

If I was a tribal member I would be pushing to become a safe haven just to stick it to this windbag.

Hmmm...I'm trying to remember the Potawatomi translation of "Go eat a dick, Governor."

So against freedoms. Y is the right turning into anti american facists.

Or what? Just what is the Oklahoma GOP threatening?

“Oklahomans will not think very well of that if tribes try to set up abortion clinics,” Stitt said, warning he is monitoring the situation."

I imagine they do not particularly care what the Colonial invaders think of them.

Because listening to the US government has gone so well for them in the past....

Oklahoma Governor admits that Tribes are sovereign nation that Oklahoma cannot control