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Verona, New York (AP)
The federal government has placed 18 acres of central New York land into tax-exempt trust for the Oneida Indian Nation.
The transfer of land from the Air Force to the U.S. Department of Interior bypassed the lengthy, contentious battle that has engulfed the Oneida nation’s request to place more than 17,000 acres of Oneida-owned land into trust, where it would be exempt from local and state governance and taxes.
The federal government has placed 18 acres of central New York land into tax-exempt trust for the Oneida Indian Nation.
The transfer of land from the Air Force to the U.S. Department of Interior bypassed the lengthy, contentious battle that has engulfed the Oneida nation’s request to place more than 17,000 acres of Oneida-owned land into trust, where it would be exempt from local and state governance and taxes.
