The Chickasaw Nation, Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma and Cherokee Nation have filed a federal lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Oklahoma, alleging that Gov. Kevin Stitt and state officials are unlawfully prosecuting tribal citizens for hunting and fishing on tribal land.

The suit, filed Monday, names Stitt; his newly appointed special prosecutor, Russ Cochran; and the Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation (ODWC) as defendants. The tribes argue that the governor does not have the authority to appoint a special prosecutor for wildlife offenses on tribal land and that his directives to ODWC violate tribal sovereignty and jurisdiction affirmed by the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2020 McGirt decision.

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