"Perhaps the most important and controversial sovereign prerogative extinguished by Congress was the power to establish and maintain tribal courts. Section 28 of the Curtis Act of 1898 provided that, effective July 1, 1898, "all tribal courts in Indian Territory shall be abolished, and no officer of said courts shall thereafter have any authority whatever to do or perform any act theretofore authorized by any law in connection with said courts....."
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