MIAMI, Okla. — The Ottawa County commissioners opened bids this week for renovation work on the building that will serve as a courthouse annex. It is adjacent to the new courthouse that is under ...

“In Ottawa County, we have 200,000 contiguous acres of reservation lands,” said Doug Lankford, chief of the Miami Tribe of Oklahoma.

The Miami, Ottawa and Eastern Shawnee tribes filed separate lawsuits in federal court seeking relief in light of the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2020 McGirt ruling.