Native Americans
GARDEN CITY, N.Y. - A small eastern Long Island Indian tribe seeking federal recognition since the 1970s declared victory Friday after an Interior Department appeals panel rejected a pair of challenges to its application.
BUFFALO, N.Y. - Lawyers for the dominant Indian nation in New York's lucrative tax-free cigarette market told a federal judge Thursday that the tribe should remain exempt from the state's plans to tax most reservation smokeshop sales because the plans interfere with the tribe's right to govern itself.
BUFFALO, N.Y. - A New York appeals court on Tuesday lifted a temporary order blocking the state from collecting taxes on cigarettes sold by Native American stores to non-Indian customers.
ROCHESTER, N.Y. - A New York appeals court has held off deciding whether to extend or lift an order blocking the state from collecting taxes on cigarettes sold by Native American stores to non-Indian customers.
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