In February, the Muscogee Creek Nation filed a motion for the Oklahoma Northern District Court to grant a temporary restraining order on Tulsa law enforcement.
The original request was to keep Tulsa police from exercising jurisdiction over Native Americans who committed crimes on Muscogee Creek Nation land, but were non-members of the tribe itself, until the lawsuit had been resolved.
The lawsuit filed by the Muscogee Nation asks a judge to declare the tribe has the sovereign right to prosecute its tribal citizens for traffic infractions…