<story><title>Native Americans say U.S. does not own land it is about to give to Rio Tinto</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-mining-resolution/native-americans-say-u-s-does-not-own-land-it-is-about-to-give-to-rio-tinto-idUSKBN29J2R9</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>VWWHFSfQ</author><text>I wish I could find the court case, but the gist of it was that there was an enormous amount of &amp;quot;public land&amp;quot; in Oklahoma (I think) that a court ruled was actually owned by a Native American tribe and the deed&amp;#x2F;land was given to them.  Access to the public was immediately revoked and multiple casinos were built on the part of the land near a lake and closest to the highway that ran through the land.&lt;p&gt;Is this a similar case?  Also if anyone has a recollection of what I&amp;#x27;m referring to, that would be awesome.  My search skills are failing me.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>magicalist</author><text>&amp;gt; &lt;i&gt;Access to the public was immediately revoked and multiple casinos were built on the part of the land near a lake and closest to the highway that ran through the land.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;Now that you&amp;#x27;ve been pointed to the story and found this is not at all what happened, it would be nice if you could edit your post to say so (or at least post a follow up saying the same if it&amp;#x27;s too late to edit).</text></comment>
<story><title>Native Americans say U.S. does not own land it is about to give to Rio Tinto</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-mining-resolution/native-americans-say-u-s-does-not-own-land-it-is-about-to-give-to-rio-tinto-idUSKBN29J2R9</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>VWWHFSfQ</author><text>I wish I could find the court case, but the gist of it was that there was an enormous amount of &amp;quot;public land&amp;quot; in Oklahoma (I think) that a court ruled was actually owned by a Native American tribe and the deed&amp;#x2F;land was given to them.  Access to the public was immediately revoked and multiple casinos were built on the part of the land near a lake and closest to the highway that ran through the land.&lt;p&gt;Is this a similar case?  Also if anyone has a recollection of what I&amp;#x27;m referring to, that would be awesome.  My search skills are failing me.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lozaning</author><text>McGIRT v. OKLAHOMA  maybe?&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.supremecourt.gov&amp;#x2F;opinions&amp;#x2F;19pdf&amp;#x2F;18-9526_9okb.pdf&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.supremecourt.gov&amp;#x2F;opinions&amp;#x2F;19pdf&amp;#x2F;18-9526_9okb.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Half of oklahoma was ruled to be on a reservation somewhat recently. Never heard any casino new related to this ruling though.</text></comment>