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  "description": "Steve Newcomb and Peter d'Errico provide an analysis of *McGirt v. Oklahoma* that examines how the decision reveals and conceals domination in U.S. law, jurisdiction, and federal power over Indigenous nations.",
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  "textContent": "WORDS: REVEALING AND CONCEALING Our springboard today is the 2020 Supreme Court decision, McGirt v. Oklahoma , that upheld US criminal law jurisdiction over \"major crimes\" in \"Indian country\" (via the 1885 Major Crimes Act, an act based on the claim of a right of domination by the US over the Original Nations). We focus on the way the US claim of \"a right of domination\" under federal anti Indian law is both visible and invisible in the majority opinion (authored by Justice Gorsuch). We discuss how the widespread media and professional celebration of the decision as a \"win\" for the Creek Nation missed or ignored the decision's continuing claim of a right of domination. The celebration of McGirt pointed to the fact that the court said the Creek still exist as part of \"Indian country\". The celebration ignored or missed clear language in the decision saying Congress has power to abolish the Creek \"at any time\" it wishes, but it hasn't done so yet. We also discuss the US argument that a slew of federal attacks on the existence of the Creek had abolished the Nation and show how that argument reads like a confession of attempted genocide. Our conversation moves beyond McGirt into other claims of a right of domination&mdash;including claims of \"bureaucratic expertism\" that seek domination over all people. We say that free existence requires free inquiry into all claims of a right of domination. Transcript Download an AI Generated Transcript of this conversation Resources McGirt v. Oklahoma <https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/19pdf/591us2r61 c0nd.pdf Major Crimes Act <https://www.justice.gov/archives/jm/criminal resource manual 679 major crimes act 18 usc 1153 \"Historic Win in McGirt v. Oklahoma\" <https://narf.org/mcgirt/ Brief of United States in Support of Oklahoma <https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/18/18 9526/138804/20200320212530248 18 9526bsacUnitedStates.pdf Raphael Lemkin first coined the term \"genocide.\" <https://www.nationalww2museum.org/war/articles/defining genocide after world war ii Emory Washburn, A Treatise on the American Law of Real Property (1864), Book III, Ch. III, Title by Grant, § 1 Public Grant. <https://www.google.com/books/edition/A Treatise on the American Law of Real P/3c8DAAAAQAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=PA164&printsec=frontcover&dq=christian Lone Wolf v. Hitchcock <https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/187/553/ Justices Gorsuch and Thomas criticize the doctrine of \"plenary power\" <https://peterderrico.substack.com/p/supreme court justices attack plenary Felix Cohen's Handbook of Federal Indian Law 1941 edition <https://thorpe.law.ou.edu/cohen.html , 2005 edition <https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/law facbookdisplay/65/ Indian Reorganization Act <https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/COMPS 5299/pdf/COMPS 5299.pdf Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson comments on \"experts\" <https://jonathanturley.org/2025/12/09/humphreys estate and jacksons experts supreme court justice offers surprising view of the separation of powers/ Citation Steve Newcomb and Peter d’Errico, \"Episode 009: McGirt v. Oklahoma: Revealing and Concealing Domination,\" Domination Chronicles (Podcast), December 17, 2025. <https://dominationchronicles.com/episodes/e009 mcgirt oklahoma revealing concealing/",
  "title": "Episode 9: McGirt v. Oklahoma: Revealing and Concealing Domination"
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