Lance Walker, Walker Law; University of Oklahoma College of Law, has published “Not a Particle of Choctaw Blood”: Samuel Caldwell’s Four Citizenship Trials, 1896-1904. Here is the abstract.
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Walker on a Choctaw Citizenship Citizenship Case
Lance Walker, an oil-and-gas attorney in Oklahoma City, has posted “Not a Particle of Choctaw Blood”: Samuel Caldwell’s Four Citizenship Trials, 1896-1904:This Article recovers a case that has not been examined in the scholarly literature since the tribunal
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Data Centers in Indian Country
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Suit Claims Head of Georgian Orthodox Church in North America Is Attempting To Wrongfully Take Property of 3 Monasteries
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Casino Battle Turns on Contract Clause of the U.S. Constitution
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