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is the second-largest city in the U.S. state of Oklahoma and 46th-largest city in the United States. With a population of 393,987 (2012 US Census estimate), it is the principal municipality of the Tulsa Metropolitan Area, a region with 951,880 residents in the MSA and 1,122,259 in the CSA. The city serves as the county seat of Tulsa County, the most densely populated county in Oklahoma, and extends into Osage, Rogers, and Wagoner counties. - Source: Wikipedia

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Damario Solomon-Simmons poses for a portrait at the memorial for the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre on Saturday, May 2, 2026, in Tulsa, Okla. Solomon-Simmons is the author of a new book about reparations over the Tulsa Race Massacre (AP Photo/Milo Gladstein)

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Tulsa Mayor Monroe Nichols IV speaks during the Legacy event for the Tulsa Race Massacre on Sunday, June 1, 2025, at Greenwood Cultural Center in Tulsa, Okla. (AP Photo/Joey Johnson)

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Tulsa Mayor Monroe Nichols speaks to residents of the city's north side on Thursday, May 22, 2025, as part of a series of "community conversations" the first-term mayor had across the city. (AP Photo/Sean Murphy

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In this Oct. 22, 2018, file photo, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents detain a person during a raid in Richmond, Va. More than 10 months after a Maryland mother of five was killed while out on a run, authorities on Saturday said they brought murder and rape charges against a Salvadoran man (not pictured) who is in the country illegally and has ties to international gang MS-13. (AP Photo/Steve Helber, File) **FILE**

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In this image provided Malia Pila, Nex Benedict poses outside the family's home in Owasso, Okla., in December 2023. Police in Oklahoma are investigating the death of Benedict, a 16-year-old student who died a day after an altercation in a high school bathroom that may have been prompted by bullying over gender identity. Neither police nor school officials have said what led to the fight. But the family of Benedict says there had been harassment because the teen was nonbinary. (Sue Benedict via AP)

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Bishop Carlton Pearson speaks at a news conference accompanied by several other clergy members, April 4, 2013, in Chicago. Before his peers would label him a heretic, the late Bishop Carlton D. Pearson was once one of the best known preachers in the nation. In the 2000s. Pearson underwent a cataclysmic theological shift that altered the course of his life – and his legacy among the canon of American Christian leaders. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green, file)

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The U.S. Supreme Court is seen on Thursday, July 13, 2023, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mariam Zuhaib)

Supreme Court rejects Tulsa’s request to issue speeding tickets to Native Americans

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This Sept. 3, 2021, file photo shows the Supreme Court in Washington. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Speeding ticket dispute heads to Supreme Court in fight over city versus Native American rights

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Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt delivers his State of the State address, on Feb. 6, 2023, in Oklahoma City. On Wednesday, June 28, a federal court ruled that a speeding ticket issued by the City of Tulsa to a Native American man cannot be enforced because the city is located within an Indian reservation. “Citizens of Tulsa, if your city government cannot enforce something as simple as a traffic violation, there will be no rule of law in eastern Oklahoma,” Stitt said in a statement. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki, File)

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FILE - Colorado Rockies television color analyst George Frazier looks on during his retirement ceremony before the Rockies host the Los Angeles Dodgers in the first inning of a baseball game Friday, Sept. 25, 2015, in Denver. Oklahoma has announced that former pitcher George Frazier has died at age 68. Frazier played for Oklahoma on College World Series teams in 1975 and 1976, and played parts of 10 Major League Baseball seasons with five clubs. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski, File)

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Broken Arrow, Okla., police and fire department investigate the scene of a fire with multiple fatalities at the corner South Hickory Ave. and West Galveston St. on Thursday, Oct. 27, 2022. Eight people were found dead Thursday after a fire was extinguished at a Tulsa-area house, and police said they were investigating the deaths as homicides. (Ian Maule/Tulsa World via AP)

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Senate candidate U.S. Rep. Markwayne Mullin gives his victory speech at his watch party, Tuesday, Aug. 23, 2022, in Tulsa, Okla. (Mike Simons/Tulsa World via AP)

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In this June 2, 2021 file photo, Damario Solomon-Simmons speaks at a news conference in Tulsa, Okla. An order from an Oklahoma judge dismisses eight plaintiffs and two entities from a lawsuit seeking reparations for survivors of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre. The order signed Tuesday, Aug. 2, 2022 by Tulsa County District Judge Caroline Wall allows the three known massacre survivors to continue seeking reparations under the state nuisance laws, but dismisses six descendants of victims. (Stephen Pingry/Tulsa World via AP)

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Tulsa Police talk to a young man at Memorial High School as he waits to be reunited with a family member who was evacuated from the scene of a shooting at the Natalie Medical Building Wednesday, June 1, 2022. in Tulsa, Okla. Multiple people were shot at a Tulsa medical building on a hospital campus Wednesday. (Ian Maule/Tulsa World via AP)

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