Oklahoma Governor Kevin Stitt Cancels Hunting and Fishing Compacts, Tribes Respond
On November 30, Oklahoma Governor Kevin Stitt dismissed a solicitation by the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma to expand a hunting and fishing reduced between the state and the Cherokee and Choctaw Nations that became real on January 1, 2017. The Governor's dismissal accompanies objection from five clans in Oklahoma, refering to that Governor Stitt recently upheld the reduced. The Governor's dismissal of the smaller means ancestral individuals should pay the state rates for hunting and fishing licenses and labels. "This choice is massively baffling, not only for Cherokee residents who are losing a program that Governor Stitt himself knew was a mutual benefit, however for each Oklahoman who has profited from these arrangements and the people in the future that would have profited from government subsidizing to help natural life the board and protection," said Cherokee Nation Principal Chief Chuck Hoskin, Jr. in an official statement on December 13. "Tragically, this is
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