In 2011, the Choctaws and Chickasaws sued OKC over the water rights at Sardis Lake in Southeastern Oklahoma. They claimed the water was part of their treaties territory and therefore they should ...

Discussions with the city of Oklahoma City resulted in a mutually agreeable deal, under which it would gain the storage rights to almost 90 percent of the water in Lake Sardis, in return for a ...

For five years Oklahoma, Oklahoma City and the Choctaw and Chickasaw tribes have fought in federal court — mostly behind closed doors — over Sardis Lake, which is on tribal land southeast of ...

Colleen Thurston: Yeah, my tribe, Choctaw Nation, was in the process of a very long lawsuit to protect the water in Sardis Lake, which is in the reservation in the southeastern part of the state ...

Oologah Lake. Spencer Creek – temporary closure (all park – closed). Sardis Lake. Sardis Cove – temporary closure camping (only boat ramp open). Skiatook Lake. Bull Creek – temporary ...

A man has died at a lake near Oxford while grabbling for catfish.Wesley Loptien, 30, died Saturday at Sardis Lake after going into the water to catch the fish with his hands, the Oxford Eagle reported ...

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