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School named for Cherokee Confederate general may get name change
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) - School officials in Oklahoma City and Tulsa will reconsider whether their schools should bear the names of confederate generals after a white nationalist rally decrying the planned removal of a Robert E. Lee statue turned deadly in Charlottesville, Virginia.
An online petition in Tulsa urges the district to rethink a 99-year-old decision to name a school after Lee. Four elementary schools in Oklahoma City also bear the names of Lee and other Confederate generals, including Stand Watie, a Cherokee.
The Tulsa school district released a statement Monday saying officials plan to review the names of all schools in the district to assure they reflect community values.
Meanwhile, Oklahoma City school officials say changing school names can cost as much as $75,000 per school.
Three people died Saturday in Charlottesville as counter-protesters clashed with white nationalists.
Ex-officer charged in murder case cites tribal citizenship
TULSA, Okla. (AP) — A former police officer facing a fourth trial for the death of his daughter's black boyfriend can't be tried in Oklahoma because the shooting happened on American Indian territory, his attorneys argued in a new court filing.
Citing his citizenship in the Muscogee (Creek) Nation, attorneys for ex-Tulsa Police Department Officer Shannon Kepler asked a judge Friday to dismiss the case because the 2014 shooting happened on land inside tribal territory. The Tulsa World reported that Kepler was issued a Creek Nation citizenship identification card on Thursday.
Court: Muscogee (Creek) Nation 1866 reservation boundaries remain intact
If the decision is allowed to stand, it could potentially alter which court systems have authority to prosecute what cases moving forward within the 11 counties at least partially within the Muscogee (Creek) Nation’s re-affirmed reservation. Three of Oklahoma’s largest cities – Tulsa, Broken Arrow and Muskogee – are either partially or wholly within those boundaries.
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