( December 5, 2022, 2:34 PM EST) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — The District of Columbia Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals put on hold an appeal by an Oklahoma Indian tribe until the trial court can decide the tribe’s request for reconsideration of dismissal of its second suit against the Department of the Interior (DOI) alleging that the tribe is part of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation and beneficiary of an 1833 Creek treaty that gives it shared jurisdiction over the vast Creek Reservation....