SALEM – (News release from CTUIR and the governor’s office) Gov. Tina Kotek has signed a proclamation to return sole legal jurisdiction in civil matters on the Umatilla Indian Reservation (UIR) to the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation (CTUIR). “Since the early 1980s, the CTUIR has exercised our criminal jurisdiction on our reservation by way of retrocession,” CTUIR Board of Trustees Chair N. Kathryn Brigham said. “Four decad…
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