Lewis v. Sac & Fox Tribe of Oklahoma Housing Authority

The majority frames the jurisdiction issue as whether Oklahoma has been “ousted” from its “concurrent jurisdiction.” It disregards United States Supreme Court case law as well as recent Oklahoma case law1 squarely in point, and instead relies predomi*517nately on two United States Supreme Court eases dealing with “ouster.” In so doing, the majority makes the assumption that the state has concurrent jurisdiction with the federal and tribal courts, and pays no heed to the abundance of United States Supreme Court law dealing with the extremely narrow jurisdiction held by a state over Indian affairs…