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The structure of state government and public infrastructure were built on the understanding that Congress had disestablished the former reservations.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 10, 2026

The court‘s ruling was based on the U.S. Supreme Court‘s landmark 2020 decision that found that much of eastern Oklahoma, including Tulsa, remains an Indian reservation because it was never formally disestablished by Congress.

From Washington Times • Jun. 29, 2023

Supreme Court, which issued a landmark decision last year that because the Muscogee Nation’s reservation had never been disestablished by Congress, the state did not have jurisdiction there in cases involving tribal citizens.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 6, 2021

It was launched in 1985 and disestablished in 2002 as the Pentagon reorganized in the wake of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.

From Washington Post • Aug. 29, 2019

But while Paganism was in no sense disestablished, Christianity might be said to a certain extent, though only to a very limited extent, to have been established side by side with it.

From Sermons by Lightfoot, J. B.