Looks to me that if you are Choctaw you can use snares and body grip traps up to 160 size on dry ground. Has anybody else read the Choctaw Game and Fish regulations and noticed that?

If that is the case, it seems a little racist that I can trap on the same public ground as somebody that’s got a Choctaw ID card. They can use snares and Conis up to 160 on dry ground. BUT, as a white guy I cannot….

I’m not so sure they do get free licenses, Blaine. I want to say there was a dust up between the trunks and Gov. Stitt and they no longer have the agreement they use to have.

Hey Wesley! I'm a Choctaw member and would like to try to clear some things up for you. I'm pretty sure you as a non-Indian can hunt on the Choctaw reservation as long as you have a state license and follow their code, not the state's. Read all of the Choctaw Nation Fish, Game, and Animals Code carefully. Trapping is a form of hunting in their code. The Choctaw Nation allows everyone to hunt and fish on their lands but the state has no say. Only the US can have a say. I'd like to remind you that the Indians of Oklahoma where striped of their lands in the south so the white man could sell and use the lands for themselves. They were forced to walk to new land which is in what is now in Oklahoma. They signed their treaties (which gives them the right to hunt and fish on their land) with the US in the mid 1800s. Oklahoma was not a state until Nov. 1907. Their treaties says they are a sovereign nation, under the control of the US. A country within a county so they have their own laws and government. Follow them on their lands and your OK dude. Don't go by the states rules! To address the license issue the Choctaw Nation use to buy 250,000 (there are currently only roughly 225,000 members) licenses for for their members at $1 each from the state until the Gov didn't renew their compact. So the state lost millions from the tribes and the US for wildlife in the state. No compact with the tribes means no funds from the US! The tribal members have always been able to hunt and fish their land without a state license so ID cards are proof them are within their sovereign rights! The IDs are issued by the Department of the Interior, Bureau of Indian Affairs after proof of blood quantum. Not the tribes so you can't buy one. My wife is a non-Indian so........! Get on with it and happy trapping!

PS: the state didn't give em casinos! The US congress did! Casino's are a small part of their many enterprises. Their economic impact was 3.2 billion in 2021 and rising. Read up on how many jobs they give to the state!

Hey Wesley! I'm a Choctaw member and would like to try to clear some things up for you. I'm pretty sure you as a non-Indian can hunt on the Choctaw reservation as long as you have a state license and follow their code, not the state's. Read all of the Choctaw Nation Fish, Game, and Animals Code carefully. Trapping is a form of hunting in their code. The Choctaw Nation allows everyone to hunt and fish on their lands but the state has no say. Only the US can have a say. I'd like to remind you that the Indians of Oklahoma where striped of their lands in the south so the white man could sell and use the lands for themselves. They were forced to walk to new land which is in what is now in Oklahoma. They signed their treaties (which gives them the right to hunt and fish on their land) with the US in the mid 1800s. Oklahoma was not a state until Nov. 1907. Their treaties says they are a sovereign nation, under the control of the US. A country within a county so they have their own laws and government. Follow them on their lands and your OK dude. Don't go by the states rules! To address the license issue the Choctaw Nation use to buy 250,000 (there are currently only roughly 225,000 members) licenses for for their members at $1 each from the state until the Gov didn't renew their compact. So the state lost millions from the tribes and the US for wildlife in the state. No compact with the tribes means no funds from the US! The tribal members have always been able to hunt and fish their land without a state license so ID cards are proof them are within their sovereign rights! The IDs are issued by the Department of the Interior, Bureau of Indian Affairs after proof of blood quantum. Not the tribes so you can't buy one. My wife is a non-Indian so........! Get on with it and happy trapping!

PS: the state didn't give em casinos! The US congress did! Casino's are a small part of their many enterprises. Their economic impact was 3.2 billion in 2021 and rising. Read up on how many jobs they give to the state!