Brett Chapman

The Supreme Court decided McGirt v. Oklahoma on this day in 2020, reaffirming tribal sovereignty. Five years later, the promise of that day has been steadily nullified by state courts defying federal law, and so today, I asked SCOTUS to review and restore the rule of law in Oklahoma

Keith Stitt petitions SCOTUS to review Oklahoma criminal court's Indian jurisdiction ruling Keith Stitt has asked SCOTUS to determine whether Oklahoma "may exercise criminal jurisdiction over an Indian for conduct in Indian County."

I am quoted in this story about today’s inaugural address:

“‘Trump is really going after Native Americans with references to Manifest Destiny, the Frontier, Wild West and erasing Denali’s name,’ wrote Brett Chapman, an indigenous attorney based in Tulsa, Oklahoma. ‘This anti-Indigenous inaugural address sounds like one from the 1800s when presidents deployed the U.S. military on Native Americans seeking rights.’”

'Slagging indigenous people': Internet slams Trump's fixation on renaming Alaskan mountain President Donald Trump's inauguration speech received horrified reactions over much of its content — but one bit in particular attracted much derision: his fixation on changing the name of Denali, an Alaskan mountain with the tallest peak in North America, to its older name of Mt. McKinley.The mou...