Ultimately, it doesn't matter what our state or local government officials do. If the land is successfully granted trust status, it will be the sovereign soil of the tribe -- not subject to state and local regulation.

Of course, the city/state might have a trump card here... I don't know.. The city/state could refuse to supply water/power/gas to the tribe (maybe).

What is interesting to me here is that the Shawnee are a landless tribe attempting to deed land they bought commercially, in Oklahoma City into trust. I'm not sure what effect, if any that'll have on the trust process, but what I do know is that the outcome of that process is not something which OKC or Oklahoma can control.