Tribal Jurisdictional Service Area (TJSA)

• The Cherokee 'Tribal Jurisdictional Service Area' (TJSA) is a 7,000 square mile region which involves fourteen Oklahoma counties.



• Its current boundaries are the same as those of the Cherokee Nation at the time of Oklahoma statehood (1907)



• These boundaries were outlined through successive federal acts, including the controversial removal of the Cherokee people from the eastern homeland to Indian territory (Trail of Tears 1838-1839) and the subsequent, continued erosion of tribal lands such as the sale of the Cherokee strip (1893). For legal purposes, they were defined as a result of the Indian Reorganization Act of 1934.