Nofire asked Hill if her office had received a letter of approval from Bureau of Indian Affair's regarding CN election law. "People may have different feelings or emotions about that, but that's a matter of law and how people feel about it at any given time is irrelevant when it's a matter of law," said Hill. Hill again clarified that the government of the Cherokee Nation is responsible for law enforcement on the its reservation. I just, in all sincerity, like when people try to work together on making sure safety and protection above all of every citizen, of all Cherokee people," said Nofire, who is running against Principal Chief Chuck Hoskin Jr. "I know their practices may be rubbing this administration the wrong way. "Outside of that location, there simply isn't a reasoned legal argument that they have jurisdiction in the Cherokee Nation reservation," she said.ĭistrict 3 Councilor Wes Nofire said he appreciates Hill's sending the letter but that he also appreciates that the UKB was offering assistance to other law enforcement agencies. Hill said the UKB's strongest argument for jurisdiction is the 76 acres of land the tribe has in trust in Tahlequah. will continue to push back on that anytime I see incursions into Cherokee Nation's sovereignty." "A lot they were seeing where things like traffic stops were being conducted in all these different counties and the UKB simply lacks jurisdiction to do that," she said. Hill thinks this issue has been the most problematic in Adair and Sequoyah counties, but went ahead and sent letters to all sheriffs in the tribe's 14 counties. The Cherokee reservation is under the exclusive tribal jurisdiction of the Cherokee Nation, and so I reached out to local law enforcement and assured them that was the case," she said. "The UKB does not have jurisdiction in the Cherokee reservation. Hill said a couple of different law enforcement agencies reached out to her with concerns about law enforcement actions taking place in their counties by the United Keetoowah Band.
"It will create a statutory option and there are other examples of statutory compacts: The gaming compact is a statutory compact, motor fuels is a statutory compact," she said. If it passes both houses, Hill said it will go to the governor for signature or veto. The Senate will take up car tags and the House will take up tobacco," she said. Today is the mandatory dead day, so it has to sit and wait one whole day.
The tobacco extension passed the Senate yesterday, the car tag extension passed through the House yesterday in a special session. "That's legislation that's currently being worked on in the statehouse.
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