Muscogee (Creek) Nation Files Petition Against Supreme Court Ruling in Favor of Creek Freedmen

Muscogee (Creek) Nation files petition against Supreme Court ruling in favor of Creek Freedmen

The Muscogee (Creek) Nation has filed a petition to have the case granting Creek Freedmen equal rights to the citizens of the Muscogee Creek Nation reheard.

Requesting rehearing, Muscogee Citizenship Board calls Freedmen ruling a 'constitutional crisis'

Saying it “creates a constitutional crisis,” the Citizenship Board of the Muscogee Nation is asking the Muscogee Nation Supreme Court to reconsider its recent decision that Freedmen descendants must be admitted as tribal citizens and that all of the nation’s “by blood” legal language is void ab initio, or from the beginning. Filed Monday, the […] The post Requesting rehearing, Muscogee Citizenship Board calls Freedmen ruling a ‘constitutional cr…

Muscogee Nation Citizenship Board files petition to rehear freedmen case

LOCAL Joe Tomlinson, The Oklahoma Eagle The Muscogee (Creek) Nation’s Council House located in Okmulgee is a relic of pre-removal Muscogee life. This is where the present day government was formally established. Photo: Tim Landes/The Oklahoma Eagle The Muscogee (Creek) Nation Citizenship Board filed a petition Monday asking the tribal nation’s highest court to rehear a July case that ordered the tribe to include freedmen as citizens based on th…